Agora 3.0

What does Agora 3.0 offer?

The Agora 3.0 infrastructure creates a training, validation and implementation environment for innovative technology and software solutions that brings value to healthcare delivery. The proposal is not a typical attempt to introduce a single new piece of equipment in a laboratory setting, but rather the acquisition of both hardware and software to establish the foundations of a futuristic, sustainable, and inclusive Health Technology and Data Hub.

Who is Agora 3.0 for?

The Agora 3.0 will be open for innovative software and hardware solutions from industry (e.g. start-ups, small and medium sized enterprises) and academia, targeting the patients’ or healthcare professionals’ needs towards personalized healthcare solutions.

Overview of Agora 3.0 infrastructure, laboratories and units

The Agora 3.0 infrastructure consists of three Labs, enforcing close collaboration between academia and industry as well as interdisciplinary teams of physicists, physicians, computer scientists, nurses, biologists and statisticians. All Labs will be connected via the latest blockchain technology, enabling fast and secure data transfer and thus creating the first connected healthcare research environment in Cyprus.

The backbone of the D(ata)-Lab is the medical data warehouse unit, where all medical data of the GOC will be stored in a digital, reliable, and structured manner using state-of-the-art software (e.g. digital patient folder). This data will be available for all applicants from industry or academia that fulfill pre-defined scientific and ethical requirements, as well as to patients via a mobile health app.The novelty for the Cypriot research and business community lies in two characteristics of the warehouse:
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(i) The existing state-of-the-art infrastructure at the German Oncology Center (e.g. PET/CT scanner, 3TMRI, dual source and dual energy CT) is improved by the integration of a number of novel technologies for Cyprus: 3T MR-elastography set-up, histopathology tissue slide scanning system and a fully digital medical health record and laboratory information system.
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(ii) Integration and searchability of the data will be established. Patients will have access to their multidimensional health-data in a decentralized fashion with their own health app. The data warehouse will be completed by the in-silico trial unit offering state of the art in-silico modeling opportunities for a deeper interpretation of the data whenever required.

Overview of the Medical Data Warehouse, of the D(ata)-Lab

The T(rial)-Lab with the early and late clinical trial units is an established infrastructure at GOC. Innovative technology solutions will be tested and implemented in clinical practice.
The S(tatistics)-Lab provides support to both other labs with a statistics unit and an artificial intelligence unit, offering state-of-the-art deep-learning and machine-learning tools as well as classical statistical methods for trial design and interpretation. To enforce sustainability, dissemination of the Agora 3.0 project results will be ensured via technology transfer services and close collaborations with local patient representative groups.