Dr. Haralampos Karanikas

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Thessaly

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Haralampos Karanikas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly.

Additional current positions include:

  • eHealth consultant in Athens Medical Society, member of the team that develops the prescription protocols integrated in the Greek national electronic prescription system.
  • General Secretary of the Greek Society of eHealth Services and Education (EEMEPY).
  • Member of the National Committee for the implementation of protocols and monitoring of pharmaceutical expenditure, under the authority of the Ministry of Health.
  • Member of the 5-member National Coordination Group for Supervision of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), for the strengthening and expansion of the provided Primary Health Care services in order to remotely monitor the health of patients. Under the authority of the Ministry of Health.

He is actively involved in eHealth and Health Information Management as a focal research area. His research interests include eHealth, Health Care systems, Patient Registries, Medical Prescription Protocols, Electronic Health Records, Ontology, data and text mining, and health big data.

He has been involved in many research projects. For two and a half years he was special IT advisor of the General Secretary, Ministry of Health, scientific responsible for the implementation of ESY.net (National health BI system), member of the Greek DRGs implementation team and member of the Central Committee of the Ministry to monitor the IT systems of the NHS. Haralampos Karanikas was board member of the Greek Health Procurement Committee (E.P.Y.), an independent agency with administrative and financial autonomy, reporting directly to the Minister of Health. E.P.Y. is responsible for strategic and operational planning of the procurement system in the Health Sector. He was a member of PARENT (Cross Border Patient Registries Initiatives). Haralampos Karanikas holds a PhD in the field of Temporal Text Mining at University of Manchester on health data management.