"As an interdisciplinary committee, we look at the healthcare system from different perspectives with a common goal in mind: to organise better medical care through greater interoperability. To this end, we contribute our expertise and experience from the fields of medicine, medical informatics and science, as well as from users, associations and industry. The Interop Council would also like to establish itself as a point of contact and umbrella brand at both national and international level through its explicit openness and connections in the IOP community." INTEROP COUNCIL
The Interop Council
The Interop Council is an interdisciplinary body of experts that contributes thematic preparations, technical assessments and recommendations for better interoperability in Germany in collaboration with the competence centre. It represents the different areas in the healthcare sector and evaluates and prioritises the specific challenges and problems for interoperable data flow and data use in medicine in a joint 360-degree assessment. A professional and care-orientated classification is carried out together. On this basis, the Competence Centre recommends binding guidelines to the BMG.
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Thun
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Thun is Chair of the Interop Council and has been University Professor of Digital Medicine and Interoperability at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité since October 2021, where she also heads the E-Health and Interoperability department. She is a qualified doctor and biomedical engineer and is a recognised expert in national and international IT standards in the healthcare sector.
Prof. Dr. Martin Sedlmayr
Prof. Dr Martin Sedlmayr studied computer science with a minor in medicine and focused his research on the user-centred development of digital assistance systems for medicine. Today, he holds the Chair of Medical Informatics at TU Dresden, is CIO of the Department of Medicine at TU Dresden and Director of the Centre for Medical Informatics at Dresden University Medicine, where he is responsible for strategic development in the field of digital medicine.
Simone Heckmann
Simone Heckmann, co-founder and Managing Director of Gefyra GmbH since 2019, is a medical IT specialist with many years of practical experience in the field of application support in hospitals and implementing interfaces. She trains and advises companies on the implementation of the HL7 FHIR® standard, to whose establishment she has made a significant contribution. She has been involved in HL7 Deutschland e.V. since 2012, where she heads the Technical Committee for FHIR® and is a member of the board.
Jörg Studzinski
Jörg Studzinski has been Project Manager for Digitalisation at AGAPLESION Mitteldeutschland since November 2021. His professional background also includes positions at international professional associations as well as market research and consulting companies, including as a responsible project manager. He holds a degree (M.A.) from the University of Leipzig, specialising in empirical communication research.
Ralf Degner
Ralf Degner is head of the Digital Office team, which supports the TK health insurance in all matters relating to digitalisation. Starting with the basic architecture of the ePA, Ralf Degner has contributed to the discussion on various applications in the context of the TI in this position.
Prof. Dr. med. Siegfried Jedamzik
Prof. Dr Siegfried Jedamzik studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg from 1969-1976 and has been Professor of Informatics in the Healthcare Industry at Deggendorf Institute of Technology since 2016. His core competences lie in the development and establishment of eHealth applications in the healthcare sector.
Dr. Anke Diehl
Dr. Anke Diehl is Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) and heads the Digital Transformation department at Essen University Hospital. As a doctor with a Master's degree in Management of Healthcare Organisations, she is an expert in digital health. She has been consortium leader of the AI cluster of excellence "SmartHospital.NRW" since March 2021. Her work also focuses on patient portals, PROMs, healthcare research, personalised medicine and disease interception.