eHealth4U: A DEMO of a Prototype National Electronic Health Record for Cyprus.

In this paper we present a demonstration of a prototype national Electronic Health Record platform for Cyprus. This prototype is developed using the HL7 FHIR interoperability standard in combination with terminologies widely adopted by the clinical community such as the SNOMED CT and the LOINC. The system is organized in such a way to be user-friendly for its users, being the doctors and the citizens.

MYeHealthAppCY: A Healthcare Mobile Application in Cyprus.

This paper presents MYeHealthAppCY, an mHealth solution designed to provide patients and healthcare providers in Cyprus with access to medical data. The application includes features such as an at-a-glance view of patient summary, comprehensive prescription management, teleconsultation, and the ability to store and access European Digital COVID Certificates (EUDCC). The application is an integral part of the eHealth4U platform targeting to implement a prototype EHR platform for national use.

Fagerstrom score predicts smoking status six months after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction: a prospective study.

Background: Fagerstrom score is a validated marker of nicotine addiction in smokers.

Methods: In a prospective study, we investigated a) the predictive value of Fagerstrom score for the smoking status in patients early after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and b) the effectiveness of medically assisted smoking cessation programs in the prevention of relapsing to smoking post discharge. In 103 smokers (58 ± 12 years, 79.

A Prototype of the National EHR system for Cyprus.

The aim of this paper is to present Cyprus' initiative for the design and the implementation of the prototype of the integrated electronic health record at a national level that will establish the foundations of the country's broader eHealth ecosystem. The latter, requires an interdisciplinary approach and scientific collaboration among various fields, including medicine, information and communication technologies, management, and finance, among others. The objective, is to design the system architecture, specify the requirements in terms of clinical content as well as the hardware infrastructure, but also implement European and national legislation with respect to privacy and security that govern sensitive medical data manipulation.

Radiocarbon-based approach capable of subannual precision resolves the origins of the site of Por-Bajin.

Inadequate resolution is the principal limitation of radiocarbon dating. However, recent work has shown that exact-year precision is attainable if use can be made of past increases in atmospheric radiocarbon concentration or so-called Miyake events. Here, this nascent method is applied to an archaeological site of previously unknown age.

Radiocarbon Production Events and their Potential Relationship with the Schwabe Cycle.

Extreme cosmic radiation events occurred in the years 774/5 and 993/4 CE, as revealed by anomalies in the concentration of radiocarbon in known-age tree-rings. Most hypotheses point towards intense solar storms as the cause for these events, although little direct experimental support for this claim has thus far come to light. In this study, we perform very high-precision accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurements on dendrochronological tree-rings spanning the years of the events of interest, as well as the Carrington Event of 1859 CE, which is recognized as an extreme solar storm even though it did not generate an anomalous radiocarbon signature.

Indolent systemic mastocytosis mimicking Crohn's disease.

Mastocytosis is a rare and heterogeneous group of diseases whose common element is the presence of dense mast-cell infiltrates in various tissues. The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is frequently affected with vague and subtle manifestations, making the diagnosis of GI mastocytosis rather formidable and challenging. The diagnosis of the disease requires a high level of clinical suspicion and an index of familiarity.

Identification of possible ΔC anomalies since 14 ka BP: A computational intelligence approach.

Rapid increments in the concentration of the radiocarbon in the atmosphere (ΔC) have been identified in the years 774-775 CE and 993-994 CE (Miyake events) using annual measurements on known-age tree-rings. The level of cosmic radiation implied by such increases could cause the failure of satellite telecommunication systems, and thus, there is a need to model and predict them. In this work, we investigated several intelligent computational methods to identify similar events in the past.

Two-stage approach for risk estimation of fetal trisomy 21 and other aneuploidies using computational intelligence systems.

Objective: To estimate the risk of fetal trisomy 21 (T21) and other chromosomal abnormalities (OCA) at 11-13 weeks' gestation using computational intelligence classification methods.

Methods: As a first step, a training dataset consisting of 72 054 euploid pregnancies, 295 cases of T21 and 305 cases of OCA was used to train an artificial neural network. Then, a two-stage approach was used for stratification of risk and diagnosis of cases of aneuploidy in the blind set.

Intelligent Noninvasive Diagnosis of Aneuploidy: Raw Values and Highly Imbalanced Dataset.

The objective of this paper is to introduce a noninvasive diagnosis procedure for aneuploidy and to minimize the social and financial cost of prenatal diagnosis tests that are performed for fetal aneuploidies in an early stage of pregnancy. We propose a method by using artificial neural networks trained with data from singleton pregnancy cases, while undergoing first trimester screening. Three different datasets with a total of 122 362 euploid and 967 aneuploid cases were used in this study.

First Trimester Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis: A Computational Intelligence Approach.

The objective of this study is to examine the potential value of using machine learning techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN) schemes for the noninvasive estimation, at 11-13 weeks of gestation, the risk for euploidy, trisomy 21 (T21), and other chromosomal aneuploidies (O.C.A.

Dosimetry using Gafchromic XR-RV2 radiochromic films in interventional radiology.

Patient dose measurements of local entrance dose to the skin have been carried out using radiochromic film (Gafchromic XR-RV2) in a sample of interventional procedures. The major aim of the work was to measure patient entrance dose from such examinations using Gafchromic XR-RV2. Forty-five various interventional procedures (including nefrostomies and urinary stenting, biliary stenting and percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) and aorta stent grafting) were evaluated.