NEWS / ACTA INFORM MED. 2017 SEP; 25(3): 210-211 In the period from 7st to 9th July 2017 14th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology and Healthcare (ICIMTH 2017) was held in Athens, Greece. The conference represents one of the largest European gathering in the field of medical informatics (Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Information Science, Health Informatics, Clinical Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Healthcare IT, Decision Support and Intelligent Systems, Diagnostic Technologies for Medical Decision Support, Formalisation of Knowledge, Ontologies, Clinical Guidelines and Standards of Healthcare, Telemedicine, Interoperability in Healthcare Systems, Imaging, Health Information Management, Knowledge Management, Health Technology Assessment, E-learning and Education, Robotics and Virtual Reality, Socio-Economic Issues, Standards, Social and Legal Issues). Major focus of conference was to present applications of Biomedical Informatics from Clinical Informatics, Health Informatics to Public Health Informatics as well as on ICT applications in the Healthcare domain. Conference was open by keynote speaker professor Christian Lovis, president of EFMI with interesting lecture’s title: “Bigdata in health: Hype, Hopes and Chaleges”. Professor Reinhold Haux, former president of IMIA was, also, interesting keynote speech with title “On Informatics Diagnostics and Informatics Therapeutics – Good Medical Informatics Research in Needed Here”. Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis had keynote lecture: “Digital Healthcare and Biomedical Informatics: the pathway to personalized medicine” and finaly, professor Mowafa Househ gave the lecture: Find your Passion, Lead with Purpose: a Health Informatician’s Guide”. During the jubilary 15th ICIMTH Conference was organized special session: CrowdHEALTH, Holistic Health Records and Big Data Analytics for 15th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Health Care, Athens, Greece, 7-9 July, 2017

Only once we agree upon our understanding of what words really mean can we debate whether a concept, represented by those words, is or not well represented significantly in specific application. Conceptual clarity and predicative/impredicative competence are the fundamental components for managing information more effectively in Health Informatics, Healthcare and Medicine applications, while promoting innovation and creativity. Medicine was always the art and science of healing. The science became more and more a mechanistic technology in Healthcare; the art was dropped altogether. But uncertainty-as-problem in the past is slowly morphing into the evaluative concept of uncertainty-as-resource. The key change performance factor is education, distinguishing building on sand from building on rock for Health Informatics! Conceptual clarity, more than instrumental obsession is necessary. In this paper, we present the main concepts of fundamental biomedical enhanced knowledge formalization for Health Informatics and Wellbeing of the future.

Isaacs Sedick, PhD (1940-2012) was born and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, Western Cape. From an early age, Isaacs was fascinated with science and was engaged in performing science experiments at home. At the age of 13, he was involved in distributing political pamphlets and attending meetings of the Teachers League of South Africa (TLSA) and the Non European Unity Movement (NEUM). After completing his education, Isaacs worked as teacher at Trafalgar High School in Cape Town. It was while teaching at the school that he met Achmad Cassiem. Isaacs with his knowledge of explosives tried to train some of his friends in the use of this. This attracted the attention of the security police who monitored their activities. Consequently,

Introduction: Quantifying science and scientific contribution has become one of the main tasks in evaluating researchers and their impact. How do we value research and science in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)? Scientific community has mostly agreed upon that one of the best ways to value researchers is through their h-index value. However, there are many databases and services from which h-index can be retrieved. Aim: To describe different databases and services such as Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus and Researchgate in evaluating the researcher. An additional aim of this paper is to present “the shape” of science at the University of Sarajevo and to examine what are the best predictors of h-index. Materials and methods: We analyzed the data from 100 Google Scholar Profiles of researchers from University of Sarajevo. Results: The study showed some benefits and shortcomings of mentioned databases and services. Most researchers in the sample were from natural sciences, in particular from the field of medicine. The mean value of h-index in relation to the researcher’s gender was not statistically significant. We conclude the article with some ideas on how to improve the visibility of researchers from BIH.

Summary Introduction The aim of this research was to determine oral hygiene related habits, knowledge and behavior in children with asthma compared to healthy children. Methodology This study included 136 children, between 6 to 16 years of age, divided into the two groups. The first group included children with asthma (study group - SG), while the second included healthy children (control group - CG). A questionnaire containing three groups of questions related to oral-hygiene and dietery habits as well as oral health related behaviour in children was prepared. Results The percentage of children from SG that brush teeth several times a day was 60.2% compared to 77.2% of CG children (p<0.05). 19.1% of SG group children versus 38.2% of CG children brush their teeth longer than 2 minutes (p<0.05). There was no significant difference in the level of knowledge about plaque impact on oral health between the two groups (p>0.05). More than half (52.9%) of CG respondents regularly visit dentist, while 50.0% of SG goes regularly (p<0.01). 51.5% of CG children visit the pediatric dentist due to preventive reasons, while SG children goes mainly due to rehabilitation of teeth (42.6%). The fear of dental procedures is more pronounced in SG compared to CG children (p<0.001). Conclusion Oral hygiene related habits and oral health behavior were worse in children with asthma, while no difference was found in relation to the knowledge among the observed groups.

Introduction: Accessory renal arteries play a significant role in kidney and abdominal aorta surgery, and renovascular hypertension. In the published literature, the frequency varies considerably, depending on the size of the sample, the method of examination and the ethnic group. Materials and Methods: The aim of this study is to determine the general frequency of accessory renal arteries, their frequency in relation to gender, the origin and the vascularization area, and to determine the differences in left-right and bilateral distribution. Results and Discussion: CT scans of 1357 patients were retrospectively analyzed. Accessory renal arteries were recorded in 35.5% of patients, with a statistically significant difference in male and female incidence (p<0.05) with a ratio of 1.4 : 1. Accessory arteries occur more commonly unilaterally (p<0.05) than bilaterally with a ratio of 4 : 1. Unilateral accessory renal arteries occur at approximately the same frequency at right and left side 1.1 : 1, without statistically significant differences in frequencies (p>0.05). Of the total number of noticed accessory renal arteries 76.7% was originated from abdominal aorta (AA), 23% from renal artery and 0.3% from CIA, with a ratio of 3.3: 1 : 0.0005. Conclusions: The study showed a relatively high frequency of accessory arteries and described their anatomy in detail, which can be of great importance in surgical interventions on abdominal aorta, kidneys, and in case of kidney transplantation.

Introduction: Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic irreversible interstitial sclerosis, for which over the last 25 years, chronic exposure to aristolochic acid from the contaminated cereal seeds has been considered the most likely cause. The aim of our research is to reevaluate trends of disease and to try to obtain new information about practical implementing of in-field screening of BEN, and to find indicators or a reliable biomarker for an early detection of the disease, especially for in field conditions. Patients and methods: Study was conducted in two phases (two groups of respondents). The first group related to respondents with BEN and microalbuminuria in the family. After filling out the questionnaire and following the consent of the respondents, their medical records were taken, and they were subjected to clinical examination and laboratory tests as well as to abdominal ultrasound and urinary tract examination. Results: For a long time, the disease is asymptomatic, with no hypertension, anemia or disturbed glucoregulation. Only A1M values were increased in the second group (16.22 mg), whereas A1M/CrUrine value was normal in both groups. Renal function in form of creatinine clearence and size of kidneys were in their referent values. Conclusion: The early stages of the disease are nonspecific, with no hypertension and disturbed glucoregulation, with normal renal function and blood count. The kidney size was in referent values. The only reliable symptom in the early stage of the renal disease was microalbuminuria.

C. Demoor-Goldschmidt, C. Carrie, G. Whitfield, P. Meijinders, K. Dieckmann, B. Timmermann, L. Zaletel, P. Banovic, M. Solak Mekic, Y. Lassen, K. Alexopoulou, J. Giralt, J. Vizkeleti, L. Jarusevicius, B. Ondrova, P. Daly, P. Brandal, G. Janssens, U. Ricardi, R. Dieter-Kortmann Inserm U 1018 Cancer and Radiation team, Villejuif, France, Radiotherapy, Centre Leon Berard, Lyon, France, Radiotherapy, The Christie, Manchester, UK, Radiotherapy, Iridium Cancer Network Antwerp-GZAUniversity of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Radiotherapy, Vienna General Hospital (AKH) Medizinische Universit€at Wien, Vienna, Austria, Radiotherapy, Clinic for Particle Therapy, West German Proton Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Radiotherapy, Institute of Oncology, Ljublajna, Slovenia, Radiotherapy, IMC Banja Luka Member of the Affidea Group, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Radiotherapy, Clinical Hospital Center “Sestre Milosrdnice”-University Hospital for Tumors, University Hospital Center Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia, Radiotherapy, Aarhus University Hospital, Radiotherapy, Aarhus, Denmark, Radiotherapy, Athens General Hospital for Children & Adolescents, Athens, Greece, Radiotherapy, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, Radiotherapy, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary, Radiotherapy, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Radiotherapy, Proton Therapy Center Czech, Prague, Czech Republic, Radiotherapy, St Lukes Radiation Oncology Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Radiotherapy, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Radiotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht – Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands, Radiation Oncology, A.O.U. Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy, Radiotherapy, Univeristy of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Contemporary learning processes in schools and universities could not be imagined without the use of computers and calculators. Naturally, all is good if they are used in order to acquire new knowledge or solve problems from expert subjects in technical schools, which demand large quantity of simple mathematical operations. However, what if frequent use of calculators, either pocket or those installed on every home and school computer, becomes an addiction in students who begin using them while calculating simple mathematical operations, such as multiplying or adding and detracting one-digit numbers or numbers smaller than 20, when they should know this by heart? We arrived at this hypothesis during knowledge tests for students after regular demonstrations and elaborations of Mathematics subject matter. In order to confirm or deny this hypothesis, generic/developmental method, that is, survey was used as one of research techniques (Selimović, 2013., p. 104). The survey was conducted in March during academic 2016/2017 and the sample consisted of 59 students in 2nd grade of Grammar School Tešanj.