Biomedical technology and clinical engineering in Greece after the pandemic: highlighted works from the Panhellenic Conference of Biomedical Technology

The period of Covid dominated the biomedical and clinical engineering workflows, as researchers and front-line health practitioners raced against time to offer solutions to the disruption caused to global healthcare. The Hellenic Society of Biomedical Technology reacted to the challenge in accordance to European and global biomedical and clinical engineering societies, waging the information battle and engaging with the public and the research community. Nonetheless, as the globe was slowly returning to its usual pre-pandemic practices, biomedical technology also entered a transition period, evolving through the challenges of the pandemic and started resembling a sort of scientific normality. In that environment, this special issue constitutes a selection of works that were presented during the last two Panhellenic Conferences of Biomedical Technology. The articles were due to their scientific interest and excellence, but also to portray the transition of the biomedical audience’s research interests from the pandemic to their more usual endeavors, albeit with the lingering influence of what transpired and how the biomedical and clinical engineering community reacted both globally and in Greece.