Health informatics

It was not only former New Democracy MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou who, ahead of the European elections last June, sent mass emails to Greek expatriates after a data leak from the Ministry of Interior’s emigrants’ registry.

It was not only former ND MEP Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou, who in the run-up to last June’s European elections sent mass e-mails from her office to Greek expatriates after they had previously been leaked from the Ministry of Interior’s expatriate archive.

Video and photo documents of the action of organizations consisting of doctors and pharmacists and cheating the EOPYY through virtual prescriptions were secured and presented by protothema.gr.

The images show members of the organizations visiting the pharmacies involved with some of them entering them holding lists (obviously of medicines) and leaving carrying paper boxes.

The issue of participation by private doctorsin on-call duty at NHS hospitals has been resolved in all regions except Kos, the health minister said on Friday morning, Adonis Georgiadis, who, given the solution to the problem, pledged not to issue the on electronic prescribing for private doctors who will not back down.

Pharmacies across Bulgaria are facing temporary closures on July 3 due to planned protests by pharmacists against proposed changes to their payment structure by the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).

Amidst a shift toward digital healthcare practices, a new regulation mandates that doctors prescribe antibiotics solely through electronic prescription starting today. Previously issued paper prescriptions for antibiotics remain valid for 30 days and can still be filled in pharmacies across the country.

Two people have been remanded in custody after appearing before an investigating magistrate to answer charges of defrauding the National Organization for the Provision of Health Services (EOPYY) of over €500,000 through the issuing of fake prescriptions.

The first international conference on active and healthy ageing was held in Ljubljana this week, addressing the subject of accessibility of healthcare in remote areas of the Adriatic-Ionian region and development of telemedicine through the lens of the international project SI4CARE. Participating countries signed an agreement for healthy ageing.

Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals can apply to have their YouTube channels certified, the video sharing platform said on Oct. 27, in a push to limit misinformation on the site.

Koper – In Saturday’s commentary headlined Patients Not the Only Ones to Be Blamed for Waiting Times, the newspaper Primorske Novice says that the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) is also to be blamed for long waiting times, having done nothing to ensure a single system of referrals registration at national level.