Biography:
Dr. Bernd Blobel received a multi-disciplinary education, covering mathematics, physics, systems engineering, biocybernetics, electronics, medicine, informatics and medical informatics, including habilitations in medicine and informatics. He was Head of the Institute for Biometrics and Medical Informatics at the University of Magdeburg, thereafter Head of the Health Telematics Project Group at the Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen, and then Head of the German National eHealth Competence Center at the University of Regensburg. He was leadingly involved in many countries health digitalization as well as electronic health record strategy. He was and is still engaged in international standardization at ISO, CEN, HL7, OMG, IEEE etc. Furthermore, he still engaged in international higher education. He is Fellow of several international academies.