EMMIT 2013

EURO-MEDITERRANEAN
MEDICAL INFORMATICS and TELEMEDICINE
9th International Conference
e-Health and Telemedicine
for scientific and social development in Mediterranean
Countries

October21-23, 2013
Polydisciplinary Faculty of Nador (Morocco)
Organized by

International Institute of TeleMedicine IITM

& The Polydisciplinary Faculty of Nador

With the patronage of

The Moroccan Ministry of Health

in partnership with
The Euromeditterranean Medical Informatics and Telemedicine Association - EMMIT
The Moroccan Society of Telemedicine & eHealth MSfTeH
The International Society of Telemedicine & eHealth IsfTeH
The University Mohammed Premier -UMP
The Faculty of Medicine & Pharmacy of Oujda
The Faculty of Medicine & Pharmacy of Fes

with the support of

Programme
Monday, October 21
8.30
8.45-13.30

Tutorial and Conference registration

Tutorials

Preconference Tutorial on:

Knowledge Engineering in
Medicine and Health Care
Prof. Salem Abdel-Badeeh M
Program:
Introduction to Artificial
intelligence
Case-Based Expert Systems
Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery in Databases
Ontological Engineering

Preconference Workshop on :
GNU Health

Tutorial on :
Medical Information

Mr. El Kafil Abdrahman

Free Health and Hospital
Information System for :
-Electronic Medical Record
-Hospital Information System
-Health Information system

Dr. Ghazal Hassan

-Information Sources
- Searching Tools

14.30 OPENING CEREMONY

- Hassan Ghazal, Local chair, University Mohammed First, Morocco

-Prof. Francesco Sicurello, President of the Conference
-Prof. Sadok Abdelaziz, President of the Universty Mohammed First
-Prof. El Hammouti Mimoun, Dean of the Pluridisciplinary Faculty of Nador
-Local Authority representative
-Regional Representative in Nador of the Ministry of Health
-Dr. Boudak Ahmed, Director of Hospitals, Ministry of Health
-Prof. Azzouzi Abderrahim, Dean of The Faculty of Medicine of Oujda
-Prof. ElAzami Elidrissi Mohammed, representative of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Fes
-Mr. Amhay Abdelkader, head of the Department of Informartics and Methods, Ministry of Health
-Dr. Cherradi Hanae, Vice-President of the Moroccan Society of Telemedicine and eHealth
-Representative of the International Society of Telemedicine and eHealth
-Dr. Kaddar Samir, President of the Moroccan MDs Abroad organisation
-Mr. El Kafil Abderrahman, GNU Health Solidario representative
-Mrs. Christine W. Kanyengo, The Network of African Medical Librarians

-Mrs.Yolanda Aldn, Honoray Citizen of Chefchaouen Poet of the two sides

15.45 SPECIAL SESSION

WITH

KEYNOTE

SPEAKERS

- Francesco Sicurello (President of IITM, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

- Salem Abdel-Badeeh M. (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt)
- Najeeb Al-Shorbaji (WHO, Geneve) - by teleconference
17.30 Poster COMMUNICATION
18.30

WELCOME

Tuesday, October 22
09.00
GHAZAL)

SESSION I: MEDICAL DATA BASES

AND

HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CHAIR: H.

- Building a Moroccan Database for Colon Cancer;

Imane Allali1, Saad Amzazi1, Afaf Amarti4,

Karim Ouldim4, Noureddine Boukhatem2, Hassan Ghazal2,3 (1Laboratory of Biochemistry &
2

Immunology, Faculty of Sciences of Rabat, Morocco. 2Laboratory of Genetics & Biotechnology, Faculty of
Sciences of Oujda, Morocco, 3Polydisciplinary Faculty of Nador, University Mohammed Premier, Nador,
Morocco, 4University Hospital Center Hassan II, 30000 Fez, Morocco)
- Towards an information system for a Moroccan newborn screening program ;

Souad
Chaqsare1, Sanaa Tok2, Mohammed Saouifi2, Fejjal Zakaria3, Diouane Fatima-Zohra3,
Afaf Amarti4, Karim Ouldim4, Noureddine Boukhatem6, Swapna Abhyankar5, Hassan
Ghazal6,7 (1Informatics Unit, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco, 2Department of
Biochemistry/Hematology, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco, 3 High-tech Moroccan School of
Computer Engineering, Rabat, Morocco, 4 University Hospital Center Hassan II, 30000 Fez, Morocco, 5National
Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, 6Laboratory of Genetics &
Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences of Oujda, Morocco, 7Polydisciplinary Faculty of Nador, University
Mohammed Premier, Nador, Morocco)

- Information system for instant diagnosis of the stage of neuroblastoma and evaluation of

treatment efficacy; Andriy Gusynin, Julia Antonova-Rafi, Valery Orel, Hanna Selezneva
(National Technical University of Ukraine KPI, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Gharb Chrarda Bni Hssen Area (Morocco); M. Chakit1, A.

Zahir2, A. Fethi2, A. Sadiq2, A. Aqira3, A. Elhessni1, A. Ouichou1, B. Benazzouz1, A.
Mesfioui1 (1Laboratory of Genetics, Neuroendocrinology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail

- Management of Urolithiasis in the

University, Kenitra, Morocco, 2Surgical Departemnt, CHR IDRISSI Kenitra, Morocco, 3Lithotripsy Centre,
Anoual clinical, Kenitra, Morocco)
-

Emergency Medical Data Management through an Enhanced Cloud-based Push Messaging

Mechanism; Vassiliki Koufi, Flora Malamateniou, George Vassilacopoulos (Department of

Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece)

Medical informatics and eHealth in Mali; 1Tidiani Togola, 1,2Ousmane LY, 1,2Seydou
Doumbia (1National Agency for eHealth and Medical Informatics, 2University of
Bamako USTTB - Mali)

10.45
11.00

Coffee Break
SESSION II: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

- Fractal Geometry in medicine;

AND

INTERNET E-HEALTH (CHAIR: Al-Dahoud Ali)

Kaoutar Lamrini Ouahabi, Mohammed Atounti (Polydisciplinary

Faculty of Nador, Morocco)

Chaqsare Souad,
Quasmaoui Aicha, Menane Zakaria, Charof Reda, Cherkaoui Imad, Rhajaoui Mohammed

- Computer Application for sentinel surveillance of nosocomial infection;

(National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco)

- Building the Libyan National EHR;

Ahmed Elbousify (Tripoli University, Tripoli Children Hospital, Libya),

Anuj Mishra (Attasami Diagnostic Services Clinic Tripoli, Libya), Mounir Mostafa (Yashfeen Clinic, Tripoli,
Libya)

- Short Message Service (SMS) Applications for Diseases Prevention and Awareness in

Palestine; Asma H Sbeih, Haitham. W Hijazi (University Palestine al-Ahlya University, PAU
Bethlehem, Palestine)

The Staffing of a PACS Administration Team; Christian Axiak (Mater Dei Hospital, Malta)
Nursing and healthcare on Wikipedia; Francesco Tarantini (Fondazione IRCCS National Institute of

Cancer, Milan, Wikimedia IT),

Miriam Magri, Luisa Pancheri, Rabia Elmouttali, Angela Vittorina

Restaini, Edoardo Tulli Baldoin (Fondazione IRCCS National Institute of Cancer, Milan Italy), James M
Heilman (East Kootenay Regional Hospital, Cranbrook, University of British Columbia, Canada), Ilario Valdelli
Wikimedia CH Switzerland)

13.00
14.00

LUNCH BREAK
SESSION III: TELEMEDICINE

AND MOBILE

HEALTH (CHAIR: S. ABDEL-BADEEH M.)

- An economic analysis of telemedicine system in Kuwait: An estimated study for overseas

treatment patients; Ali Buabbas (Ministry of Health, Kuwait), Hamza Alshawaf (Kuwait
University, Kuwait)
- Telemedicine Services, In PID, Allergy and Radiology Diagnosis;

University, Tripoli Children Hospital, Libya), Anuj

Mounir Mostafa (Yashfeen Clinic, Tripoli, Libya)

Ahmed Elbousify(Tripoli

Mishra (Altasami Diagnostic Services Clinic Tripoli, Libya),

- Telemedicine Applications in Managing Health Programs at Hotels and Camps on the Island of

Losinj in Croatia; A. Margan ulc, D. Plavec, N. Miculini, J. Mose, T. Funari, N. Gari, D.

Jakovljevi (Virtual Polyclinic, Mali Losinj, Croatia)

- International multi-centre data gathering to create a database and a radiological software to be

used for differential diagnosis of brain lesions of suspected infectious origin; Zennaro F.*,
3

Grosso D.*, Zanon D*., Minuzzo T.**, Casalino A.*, Maximova N.* (*Institute for Maternal and
Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo- Trieste, **CNR Venice)
- Mobile Healthcare Management System for Diabetes ;

Asma H Sbeih (Palestine University/PAU

Bethlehem)

Mohamed A. ElBashier1, Adil Hamid Hassan

Bashir2 and Faisal M. Fadlelmola1, 3, 4,* (1Faculty of Computer Science, Future University,

- Smartphone-based MobileTeledermatology;

Khartoum, Sudan, 2Dermatology Department, El-Waha Medical Centre, Khartoum, Sudan, 3Centre for
Bioinformatics, Future University, Khartoum, Sudan, 4Asmara College of Health Sciences, School of Allied
Health Professions, Asmara, Eritrea)

15.45
16.00

Coffee Break
SESSION IV: DEVICES, TELEMONITORING, E-CARE

AND

AAL (CHAIR: F. SICURELLO)

Igor N. Korsakov, Sergey M.

Kuptsov, Denis Raznometov, Valentin Feklistov, Maxim Sumskoy (National Research University

- Prototype X73-PHD 3-LEAD ECG Device for Personal HealthCare;

High School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

- Teleconsultation perspective for cardiovascular patients in Saudi Arabia pilot study ;

Naif

Almotiri (Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia, Brunel University, London, U. K.)

- Study and Implementation of a Network Point Health Smart Home Electrocardiographic;

Hamlil

Nabila, Benabdellah Mohammed (Tlemcen University, Tlemcen, Algeria)

- Telemonitoring of Three Characteristic Parameters of Acoustics vocal signal in patients with

Tumor or Inflammatory chronic dysphonia; Abdelouahed Sara, Benabdellah Mohammed,

Aounallah Sid Ahmed (Tlemcen University, Tlemcen, Algeria)

Alessandro Donzelli, Francesco Sicurello

- TeleCare for Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy;

(University of Milan Bicocca, Italy, IITM)

- Towards the Definition of a Multi-Agent Architecture For Ambient Assisted Living: The Virtual

Carer Project; Paolo Sernani, Andrea Claudi, Luca Palazzo, Gianluca Dolcini, Aldo Franco

Dragoni (University Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)

20.00

SOCIAL DINNER

Wednesday, October 23
09.00 SESSION V: ICT

PROJECTS,

COMPUTER

INTERFACES AND

SUPPORT

SYSTEMS

(CHAIR: G. MAURI)

- The Idea of an International Project for Developing Expert Systems for Planning the Choice of

Healthy Food for Elderly People; Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem (Ain Shams University, Egypt), Al-

Dahoud Ali (Al-Zaytoonah University, Jordan)

- Formalizing harmony rules for nutrition counseling;

Balzs Pintr, Balzs Gal, Istvn

Vassnyi (University of Pannonia, Veszprm, Hungary)

- Amazigh Speech Recognition and characteristics of people with pathological voice;

Hassan

Satori (1, 2), Safae Elouahabi (1) (1):Mohammed Premier University, Nador, 2): Sidi Mohamed Ben
Abbdallah University, Fez - Morocco)
- Brain-Computer interface systems in the rehabilitation of chronic stroke patients with no

cognitive impairments; Giulia Cisotto, Francesco Piccione, Silvano Pupolin (University of

Padua, Italy)

Yassine ouilmi1,4,
Hassan Ghazal , Saaid Amzazi , Noureddine Boukhatem , Peter J. Tonellato4 (1Faculty of

- Clinical Avatars for Breast Cancer Prediction in the Moroccan Population;

2,3

Sciences of Rabat, 2Faculty of Sciences of Oujda, Morocco, 3Polydisciplinary Faculty of Nador, University
Mohammed Premier, Nador, Morocco, 4Center for Biomedical Informatics, Boston, MA, USA)

10.45
Coffee Break
11.00
SESSION VI: BIOINFORMATICS, MODELLING
EL IDRISSI)

AND DATA MINING

(CHAIR: M. EL AZAMI

Fatima
Zahra Laarabi, Afaf Lamzouri, Ilham Ratbi , Abdelaziz Sefiani (Universit Mohamed V Souissi,
Rabat, Institut National dHygine, Rabat) Amina Barkat (Centre National de Rfrence en Nonatologie et

- Low Prevalence of p.G352fsdelG Mutation in Phenylketonuria Patients from Morocco;

en Nutrition, Rabat, Morocco)

4

- The Moroccan Genetic Disease Database (MGDD): A Country-Specific Database for DNA

Variations related to Inherited Disorders and Multifactorial Diseases ; Hicham Charoute,

Halima Nahili, Omar Abidi, Khalid Gabi, Hassan Rouba, Abdelhamid Barakat (Institut Pasteur
du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco), Malika Fakiri (Universit Hassan I, Settat,Morocco)
Algorithm for Gene Selection using within and between Replicates Comparisons; Kaissi
Ooufae1, Singh Raj2, Moussa Ahmed3 (1Adbelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier, Morocco, 2Jaypee
University of Information and Technology, Solan, H.P., India, 3University of Poitiers, France)

Modeling and Simulation of the Blood Coagulation Cascade; Matteo Bellini, Giancarlo Mauri,
Marco S. Nobile (University of Milano Bicocca),, Daniela Besozzi (University of Milan), Paolo
Cazzaniga (University of Bergamo, Italy)

GT- DB GPU: Gene Tracer for fast scanning of sequence databases on graphics processing
units; Mohamed Issa1, Hitham M. Abo Bakr1, Ahmed Mansour Alzohairy2, Julie D.

Thompson3 (1Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt., 2Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture,
Zagazig University, Egypt, 3Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France)
-

EG Gel Analyzer: Advanced clustering Algorithms for analysis of DNA and protein Gel
Images; Riham Alewadi1, Ahmed M. Alzohairy2,3, Wael M. Khedr1 (1Faculty of science, Zagazig
university, 2Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, 3Egyptian Center of Bioinformatics And GenomicsECBAG, Zagazig University, Egypt)

CONCLUSION,

12.45

REMARKS AND TOWARDS

EMMIT 2014 (GREECE)

POSTERS:
- Prototype 5-LEAD ECG Device for Personal Health-Care; Igor Korsakov, Sergey Kuptsov
(National Research Institute High School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
- Improving of the operation algorithms and software of information system AriadiCa for

monitoring ECG (Holter monitoring); Valery Antonov , Julia Antonova-Rafi (National

Technical University of Ukraine KPI)

- The perception and plans for implementation of e-health solutions among hospital managers

in Poland; Mariusz Duplaga, Marcin Grysztar (Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow,
Poland)
- Genomic Analysis of Predicted Proteomes and Phylogeny Study of Mycobacterial Strains;

Fathiah Zakham1,2, Othmane Aouane3, David Ussery4, Mohamed Elmzibri5 and Moulay
Mustapha Ennaji2 (1 :Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences. Hodiedah,
Yemen, 2 :Laboratory of virology, Hygiene and Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences & Techniques. Mohammedia,
Morocco, 3: Experimental physik, Universitt des Saarlandes, Postfach 151150, 66041 Saarbrcken, Germany,
4: Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, 5. Unit de
Biologie et Recherches Mdicales, Centre National de lEnergie, des Sciences et Techniques NuclairesRabat- Morocco)
- Exploring the origin of hybrid biological sequences using GPU; Mohamed Issa (Faculty of
Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt)

Scientific Committee
Chairman: Francesco Sicurello (President of IITM, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Co-chairs: Salem Abdel-Badeeh M. (Ain Shams University, Cairo-Egypt (Egypt); Hassan Ghazal
(MsfTeH, University Mohammed First, Morocco)

Mohamed Abd-allah (Egypt)

Vesna Ilakovac (Croatia)
Raouf Alami (Morocco)
Novak Jaucokic (Montenegro)
Tayseer Al-Shanableh (Turkey)
Okba Kazar (Algeria)
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji (WHO, Geneve)
Janis Keklikoglou (Greece)
Christian Axiak (Malta)
Hoda Khachan Abi Khalil (Lebanon)
Essam Ayad (Egypt)
Alda Kika (Albania)
Valentina E. Balas (Romania)
Vassiliki Koufi (Greece)
Manana Beruchashvili (Georgia)
Anamarija Margan (Croatia)
Paul Bezzina (Malta)
Sana Daya Marini (Lebanon)
Marcello Bracale (Italy)
Polina Mihova (Bulgaria)?
Zoran Dogas (Croatia)
Ioana Moisil (Romania)
Zouheir El Imad (Lebanon)
Valrie Monfort (Tunisia)
Aziz El Matri (Tunisia)
Jos Luis Monteagudo Pena (Spain)
Yamna Ettarres (Tunisia)
Efstratia Mourtou(Greece)
Veska Georgieva (Bulgaria)
Ahmed Moussa (Morocco)
Florin Gorunescu (Romania)
Elena Nechita (Romania)
Johnny Heubri (Lebanon)
Klimis Ntalianis (Greece)

Zahraa Noureddine (Lebanon)

Iman Osta (Lebanon)
George Pangalos (Greece)
Immacolata Pannone (Italy)
Simion Pruna (Romania)
El Ouazzani Rajae (Morocco)
Mohamed Roushdy (Egypt)
Andrei Selkov (Russia)
Ghassan Shahrour (Syria)
Christina G. Siontorou (Greece)
Valery Stolyar (Russia)
Peter Tonellato (Morocco)
Oswaldo Trelles (Spain)
Sami Turki (Tunisia)
Nikolay Tverdokhlebov (Russia)
Anton Vladzymyrsky (Ukraine)
Tatjana Zrimec (Slovenia)

Organizing Committee
Chair: Hassan Ghazal (MsfTeH, University Mohammed First, Morocco)
Mohamed Abd-allah (Senior expert of ITU, Egypt); Patrizia Magretti, Alessandro Donzelli (IITM:
International Institute of Tele-Medicine)

e-mail: segreteria@iitm.eu ; Website: http://www.msfteh.org/telemed2013/