Evaluation of a Health Informatics Postgraduate Program.

The 4th industrial revolution of informatics and data is an important factor of modern health care provision. The WHO, the EU and other governmental authorities have recognised the new needs. The health care professionals face this change in daily work. The higher education community has responded on time with a wide range of relevant programs. In order to achieve the best results for health care related educational programs an evaluation procedure is needed. In this work a brief part of the evaluation of a Health Informatics program is presented.

Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of Patients with Neurological Disorders.

Neurological disorders affect the lifestyle and the living conditions of a patient. Virtual Reality is a technology that may be used to simulate various types of tasks in a computerized environment guiding the patient and help on rehabilitation. This review try to answer how Virtual Reality technologies can effect on the patients rehabilitation's results. Treatments which involves Virtual Reality applications offer new ways to make the patients more committed to their program and keeps them motivated. Another characteristic of a Virtual Reality treatment is that both patients and therapists can observe the mistakes made during a physiotherapy session. The insert of VR sessions in traditional rehabilitation therapy of patients with neurological disorders have produced positive results.

Wireless Monitoring for Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases and Parkinson's Disease.

The use of applications for mobile devices and wireless sensors is common for the sector of telemedicine. Recently various studies and systems were developed in order to help patients suffering from severe diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and Parkinson's disease. They present a challenge for the sector because such systems demand the flow of accurate data in real time and the use of specialized sensors. In this review will be presented some very interesting applications developed for patients with cardiovascular diseases and Parkinson's disease.

Smoking Cessation: Services and Applications for Mobile Devices.

The aim of this review is to present mobile health applications which help individuals to change their smoking habit. An online search on scientific databases and mobile application stores was conducted to collect information about m-Health and the smoking cessation. 12 papers found discussing about mobile applications and solutions for quit smoking referred to 4 different technological approaches. Based on the research results, mobile devices and their applications constitute an excellent mean that can help smokers by providing counseling and give them the necessary motivation to smoking cessation.

Health and Safety Modelling processes at work for the support of the Epidemiological Surveillance.

Health and safety at the work place is an important issue of the modern society, as there are a lot of factors and parameters which may influence health in the working environment. The aim of this research gives with a simple and comprehensible everything that is related with workers health and it also facilitate the developers computer work to create more advanced systems targeted in health informatics in the near future. Through bibliographic research risk factors were identified and categorized in order to be more functional. These types of categories include the natural, biological, chemical and transverse risk factors. Detailed information was also presented regarding the types of work, the Personal Protective Equipment the sex, the age, the education and the training at the work place. Based on the class diagram of Unified Modeling Language (UML), an object-oriented model was developed, in which every possible correlation of the above mentioned risk factors with the hygiene and safety of workers was presented.

Combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy during conception and first two trimesters of gestation in a woman with metastatic breast cancer.

A 33-year-old woman with T(4c)N(3) breast cancer with metastases in the skeleton (M(1)) received five cycles of 5-fluorouracil, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide (FEC regimen) before conception and during the first trimester. Salvage radiotherapy (28 Gy) was delivered during the 17th week. Tamoxifen and zolendronic acid were also administered throughout the second and third trimesters. The patient was not aware of her pregnancy until the 28th week. A female phenotypically normal infant was delivered in the 35th week of gestation by cesarean section. The child is functioning normally 12 months after delivery. The literature of anthracycline treatment during conception and the first trimester is reviewed. The effects of tamoxifen and biphosphonate therapy on the fetus during pregnancy are also discussed.