eHealth 2006, High Level Conference and Exhibition, Malaga, Spain, 10 - 12 de May 2006

Silas Olsson has a back-ground in health services research, including medical engineering, technology transfer and health technology assessment and public health. He has been working for Swedish and international companies in Sweden and Germany, in a government research institute in Stockholm and since 2001 for European Commission, ICT for health unit, in Brussels. He has a long international experience in the field of health informatics / eHealth, both from development, projects and market point of view. Back in the 1990th he was the founding president of Swedish Telemedicine and eHealth society and founding board-member of Nordic Telemedicine Association.

Silas Olsson has published about 150 articles in professional health care and health technology related journals and books.

Dr. Karl Stroetmann has been principal investigator or senior researcher of studies on policy strategies, market research and validation of applications of ICT in the health sector. Presently, he coordinates two projects for the European Commission and all 25 Member State Health Ministries to support the implementation of the European eHealth Action Plan and to improve interoperability among Member State health systems. The economic impact of eHealth, patient safety, or semantic interoperability (with WHO involvement) are topics of other work. - In Nov. 2002, he received an award for „Telemedicine - Human Applications of IT in Medicine" (Integrata Foundation). Karl's biography is included in the International WHO’S WHO of Professionals and Marquis Who`sWho in the World.

Alexander Dobrev is junior consultant at empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany. He is specialising in studies on socio-economic effects of eHealth applications and strategic eHealth policy issues. His recent work has focused on the economic impact of eHealth (www.ehealth-impact.org). Alexander has an extensive record of experience in international work and education environments, including international projects and conferences in Germany, the UK, and Bulgaria. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford (2005).

Alexander joined empirica in 2005 and is involved in various projects in the eHealth area.

Tom Jones has over 20 year's experience in healthcare information, finance and economics. Before setting up his consultancies in the early 1990s, he was a director of finance and information in the NHS, UK. He has researched and published extensively on economic and financial aspects of eHealth, including economic evaluations of over 20 sites, assessed cost themes of care pathways, and reviewed healthcare finance practices in several countries. He is a member of the eHealth Impact team, and is now developing the eHI findings to apply them in eHealth projects.

Dr. Mogel serves as Deputy Director of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), located in Frederick, MD, and Marina del Rey, CA. TATRC manages almost $400M of federal medical technology research and development funding at a wide range of academic and industrial centers. Dr. Mogel is also Assistant Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA., as well as a practicing radiologist. Dr. Mogel remains active in a wide variety of medical research programs ranging from digital imaging to medical robotics and speaks frequently on the impact of advanced technology on the practice of medicine.

Paul-Christophe Varoutas is the coordinator of the Medical Infocentre at the Institut Curie Cancer Care Centre since 2002. He is a molecular geneticist and a software architect. From 1996 to 2001, he participated, as a PhD student in the Institut Curie Research Division, in the discovery of SPO11 as the topoisomerase that initiates meiotic recombination. Since 2001, he joined the Institut Curie Hospital, where he coordinates the development of Prométhée, a biomedical and health informatics framework based on a heterogeneous data source search meta-engine. This framework relies on an algebraic model and addresses data integration problems such as cross-aggregation, cross-interrogation and cross-quality control.

Alain Livartowski has been the coordinator of the Medical Information Department at the Institut Curie Cancer Care Centre since 1993, and the director of the Medical Information Service since 1999. His activities include developing the clinical part of Curie's holistic health information system, and medical and medico-economic evaluations of the hospital's activities. He is also active as a pneumologist specializing in thoracic oncology. He has coordinated the Medical Information Group of the French Cancer Centres' National Federation since 2000, and coordinates the Paris Regional Oncology Electronic Patient Record (DCC) development. Alain Livartowski has been clinical leader in developing Elios, a fully integrated and comprehensive Electronic Patient Record, and Prométhée, a biomedical and health informatics search meta-engine.

Tomas Mladek is a Chief Executive Officer in IZIP, Inc.. and deals with eHealth services and electronic health records. IZIP, Inc. currently provides world-wide access to health records to one million people and eight thousand health care professionals from the Czech Republic. Tomas Mladek holds medical degree from Charles University in Prague and MBA from Sheffield Hallam University. He has dedicated his career to interconnection of medical, IT and commercial fields to facilitate health care services. Before he joined IZIP, Inc. in 2002 he had been developing international commercial medical projects from Paris, France.

Stanislava Sykorova is CEO´s personal assistant in IZIP, Inc. Her company activities are mainly focused on foreign affairs and EU projects. She holds Master degree in Radiobiology and Toxicology from South-Bohemian University, but her proffesional career was concerned by projects application and realisation within Academy of Science or EU project LEADER CR.

Reinhard HAMMERSCHMIDT is scientific consultant at empirica GmbH. His main fields of activity are the impact of ICT-related change, interoperability and co-operability issues in healthcare, and geospatial applications. Current involvement is mainly in the European projects Good eHealth (www.good-ehealth.org), and eHealth Impact. He holds a degree in Geography and Sociology from the University of Bonn since 2003; he also received a certificate as a paramedic in 1995.

Reinhard joined empirica in 2002 and has since then been involved in many projects dealing with ICT issues in health and social care.

has occupied the position of Director of the Business Management Division of AOK Rheinland since its inception in 1994. The core activity in this position is the organisation of the business, self-management and special operations, including European integration in health care (in which respect he is also management representative). Following vocational training and in-service training in the medical insurance fund sector and his current position was preceded by position as Divisional Director of the AOK Association for the Federal State - his current position is the representative of the board.

Heike Au has occupied the position of an official in charge (Referentin) in the Business Management Division of AOK Rheinland, departement for Organisation and Planning, since 1993. The core activity is the development and introduction of projects, especially including European integration in health care, and organisation within the AOK Rheinland meaning for example: preparation of plans, contracts and procedures implementation, information, accompany and controlling implementation. Following vocational training and in-service training in the medical insurance fund sector, and deputy manager of the office in Stolberg (D) she works in the European projects the representative of the board too.

Dr. Simonetta Scalvini, April 9, 1959.
Medical Doctor: Cardiologist, Pneumologist;
Head of the Telemedicine Service; Scientific Director of IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri Foundation- Gussago/Lumezzane Medical Center (BS) Italy.
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Fellow of the Italian Society of Cardiology (ANMCO).

ACCA Deputy President Dennis Yeates was elected to Council in 1998. He has served on a number of Council Committees, including as Chairman of the Health Service Society Committee and Staff Committee. He has also been a member of the ACCA UK, Corporate Governance and Audit, Financial Reporting committees and the Corporate Governance & Audit Task Force.

Dennis began his career in private practice before entering the public sector. He is currently Deputy Director of Finance of the Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. His professional interests are focused on financial management and reporting and staff training and development.

Dennis has represented ACCA at regular meetings with the National Health Service Finance Director as well as working with the European Commission and the Standing Committees of European Doctors and The Hospitals of the European Union.

He lives close to Worcester with his wife and daughter.

Véronique Lessens is a manager at Deloitte, and has more than 10 years of professional consulting experience in the Health Care sector. She has focused on eHealth issues for the last five years. Since 2001, she has been manager of the Health Information Network Europe (www.hineurope.com) project, initiated for the European Commission and now hosted by Deloitte. HINE addresses the pan-European market for ICT in healthcare. While the HINE service is targeted primarily at ICT companies, it is also intended to inform and assist strategic planning and investment decisions for Governments, Health Authorities, Payer Organisations and Healthcare Providers. She is currently the project manager for the Good eHealth project for the European Commission DG Information Society and Media, which aims at identify good practices in eHealth and their associated benefits.