Summer School on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Samos Island - 2010, Greece

The 1st Summer School on Biomedical and Health Informatics will take place in Samos Island, during 19 – 24 July of 2010. The course is our first endeavour to develop and establish a high-level educational session where PhD candidates, academics and practitioners could meet. Well-known professors in the field of Health share their expertise with participants who crave in indulge in topics of influential scientific weight. Exchanging of ideas, sharing experience of practice, enhancing the concepts of scientific research are just few of the main orientations of the 1st Summer School on Biomedical and Health Informatics.

The course’s high quality of provided knowledge is collaborated by the superior proficiency of lecturing professors, the prominent infrastructure of Research and Training Institute of East Aegean and the eagerness of the organising committee to modulate a outstanding event in the Academia.

BmHi 2010: Aims & Themes
The main objectives of the 1st Summer School on Biomedical and Health Informatics is to impel the scientific research and the broadening of thinking onto subjects of interest in the field of Health. The colleaguemanship among people of Academia and people of Healthcare marketplaces underpins the discussions concerning matters of everyday reality. Therefore, this session is vital for bringing PhD candidates, on the one hand, closer to pragmatic conditions and practitioners, on the other hand, nearer to research methodologies and academic thought.


During the Summer School several topics will be analysed by expertise professors. The areas could be quoted below on random order:

* Electronic Health Records.
* E-Health Information Management.
* Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Health Sciences.
* Health Management Issues.
* Health Care Information Systems.
* Clinical Information Systems.
* Medical Image Processing and Techniques.
* Medical Expert Systems.
* Bioinformatics and Biostatistics.
* Telemedicine Software, Portals, Devices and Tele-health.
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Medicine.
* Applied Quantitative methods
* Medical Databanks, Databases, and Knowledge Bases.
* Neurocomputing in Medicine.
* Ontological Engineering in Medicine.

As noticed, already, by questioning such kind of issues, the participants are getting thorough apprehension of real situations in the world of providing health services to the Public and the challenges concerning the enhancement of Health Management towards effectiveness and efficiency of health organisations.