Bernd Blobel

University of Regensburg, Germany

Title: Managing Healthcare Transformation towards Intelligent and Ethical 5P Medicine Ecosystems

---

Biography

Bernd Blobel received a multi-disciplinary education, covering mathematics, physics, systems engineering, 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, and then Head of the Health Telematics Project Group at the Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. Thereafter, he acted until his retirement as 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 and Member of several international academies.

Research Interest

Health and social care systems currently undergo a transformation from phenomenological through evidence-based, person-centered, and personalized care towards personalized, preventive, predictive, participative precision medicine (5PM), supported by technology. 5PM considers individual health status, conditions, genetic and genomic dispositions in personal social, occupational, environmental and behavioral context, that way understanding the pathology of diseases and turning health and social care from reactive to proactive. Thereby, we have to enable communication and cooperation between all actors of the ecosystem, participating in different knowledge spaces, representing different disciplines, using different methodologies, perspectives, intentions, languages, etc. Therefore, the knowledge-based, multidisciplinary, highly complex and dynamic 5PM ecosystem must be consistently and formally represented. The outcome is a system-theoretical, architecture-centric, ontology-based, policy-driven approach for designing and managing intelligent and sustainable 5PM ecosystems, developed by the author and meanwhile standardized as ISO 23903 Health informatics – Interoperability and integration reference architecture – Model and framework. This approach is now mandatory at ISO, CEN, IEEE and other SDOs for all projects covering more than just one domain.