OHDSI Greece 

The Greek National Node envisages the wider adoption of OMOP-CDM as a gateway for leveraging observational research within the frame of the OHDSI-EHDEN ecosystem. In this context, the main objectives of the Greek National Node can be summarized as follows:

  • Expand the network of partners in Greece
  • Align with national policy initiatives
  • Trigger related research initiatives

To this end, the Greek National Node will actively pursue the following activities:

  • Active dissemination of EHDEN/OHDSI activities, aiming at (a) academia and research groups, (b) healthcare organizations, (c) policy makers, (d) enterprises in the eHealth domain and (e) organizations focusing on clinical research
  • Technical and operational support of the potential data providers
  • Regular engagement in OHDSI/EHDEN activities at the European level
  • Support the setup of relevant research infrastructure and projects

To follow the updates of the OHDSI Greek National Node, you can subscribe in the OHDSI-GR email list (maintained by CERTH).

Network members 

Name 

Organisation 

Role

Pantelis Natsiavas INAB|CERTH Researcher, software engineer, main contact person for OHDSI Greek National Node
Stella Dimitsaki INAB|CERTH Data scientist
Eva Minga INAB|CERTH Data scientist
Elisavet Nika

Covariance

Managing director
Thomas Tsiampalis

Covariance

Data scientist, biostatistician
Vasilis Tzevelekis

ORCO

CEO
George Nikolaidis Ergobyte

CEO

Jenny Pliatsika Ergobyte

Lead developer

George Lagogiannis Space Hellas, SingularLogic Member of the board of directors
Christos Panagopoulos Bioassist CEO
Paris Gallos Bioassist Health informatics scientist
Vasilis Aggelidis General Hospital of Kavala Head of administration - finance - IT
Christos Kontogiorgis Democritus University of Thrace Associate professor of hygiene
Foteini Dermiki Democritus University of Thrace Research associate
Petros Papachristou Hellenic Healthcare Group - Hygeia CIO
Maria Adaloglou Hellenic Healthcare Group - Hygeia Health applications manager
Emmanouil Koutalas Janssen Greece Commercial director - hematology/oncology
Evita Fragkou Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group Data office manager
Kristis Vevis German Oncology Centre Research projects administrator
Thodoros Gkatzos IQVIA Greece Senior Consultant, Market Access & Health Policy Offering
Athanasios Bilalis Digital Health Solutions CEO
Timo Bilalis Digital Health Solutions CTO
Dimitrios Katehakis ICS/FORTH Head of Center for eHealth Applications and Services at FORTH-ICS
Haridimos Kondylakis ICS/FORTH Collaborating Researcher at Computational BioMedicine Laboratory, FORTH-ICS
Ioannis Samiotakis Uni.systems Public Sector & S/W Products Business Unit
Athanasios Kakasis Ainigma technologies CEO
Christos Chatzichristos Ainigma technologies Scientific Consultant
Alex Bensenousi Ainigma technologies Business Development Manager
Rob Holmes Agora labs Chief Operating Officer
George Metsis Agora labs SVP of Development

 Data partners

Organisation 

Type

Email

General Hospital of Kavala - EHR General hospital (public)

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Papageorgiou General Hospital of Thessaloniki - EHR General hospital (public)

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Hygeia Hospital - EHR General hospital (private)

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Greek CLL dataset (hosted by INAB|CERTH) Dataset collected by various haematological centres across Greece

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Digital Health Solutions Diagnostic lab data

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Certified SMEs

Organisation 

Domain

Email

eHealth Lab, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Bioanalysis - Real world evidence - Implementation science

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Covariance P.C. Healthcare and Health Insurance

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ORGANIZATION & COMPUTING SA Health Information Technology

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Ergobyte Informatics S.A. Medical Data - Clinical Decision Support

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Bioassist Innovative Solutions Medical Data and applications This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Ainigma Technologies Medical Data, Medical Imaging, Signal processing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Leading Organisation 

The Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (INAB|CERTH) is the flagship institute for biomedical research in northern Greece. The eHeatlh Lab of INAB|CERTH has been founded in 2016 and is currently led by Dr. Pantelis Natsiavas. INAB|CERTH is already acting as a coordinator for various national and European research initiatives (ERIC-CLL, BBMRI, Hellenic Network of Precision Medicine on Cancer, MyPal project, National registry of home mechanical ventilation supported patients etc.), thus it has the necessary experience and capacity to support the role of the EHDEN National Node for Greece.  The eHeatlh Lab of INAB|CERTH follows the activities of OHDSI network and the EHDEN project for some years now and builds upon its outcomes both in terms of research and technical developments.

Indicatively, the eHealth lab of INAB|CERTH has: 

Publications  

  • Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Environment: Utilizing OMOP-CDM and OHDSI Software Stack to Integrate EHR Data. Dimitriadis VK, Gavriilidis GI, Natsiavas P. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 May 27;281:555-559. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210232. PMID: 34042637 
  • Large-scale adverse effects related to treatment evidence standardization (LAERTES): an open scalable system for linking pharmacovigilance evidence sources with clinical data. Knowledge Base workgroup of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI)  collaborative. J Biomed Semantics. 2017 Mar 7;8(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s13326-017-0115-3. PMID: 28270198  

Contact

Please do not hesitate to subscribe to the OHDSI-GR email list.

If you want to contact us directly, you can contact with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or the following persons:

Pantelis Natsiavas, 
Researcher, 
eHealth Lab, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 
e-mail: pnatsiavas@certh.gr

Anastasia Farmaki, 
Research Associate
eHealth Lab, Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 
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