Haralampos Karanikas
Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics and e-Health Systems, Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Thessaly – Secretary General, Hellenic Society of eHealth Services & Education (EEMEPY)
Haralampos Karanikas is an Assistant Professor (Medical Informatics and eHealth Systems) in the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Thessaly. He is a member of the National Committee for the Implementation of Protocols and Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Expenditure, under the authority of the Greek Ministry of Health. He is Secretary General of the Greek Society of eHealth Services and Education (EEMEPY). He is also a Member of the HL7 Hellas Board. He is actively involved in eHealth and Health Information Management as a research focus.
For two and a half years, he was special IT advisor to the Ministry of Health, and a board member of the Greek Health Procurement Committee (E.P.Y.), responsible for the strategic and operational planning of the procurement system in the health sector. He has been involved in many EU research and initiatives projects (PARMENIDES, X-eHealth, UNICOM, XpanDH, i2x, XT-EHR etc.). He has been a member of PARENT (Cross Border Patient Registries Initiatives) and EUnetHTA (European Network of Health Technology Assessment) EU initiatives. He has been a senior eHealth advisor to international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO – Regional Office for Quality and Safety of Health Services in Europe), Expertise France and IHE Catalyst (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise). Haralampos Karanikas holds a PhD in the field of Temporal Text Mining at University of Manchester in the field of health data management.