Bernd Blobel

Abstract

For realizing pervasive and ubiquitous health and social care services, health and social
care system have to undergo an organizational, methodological and technological transformation
towards personalized, participative, preventive, predictive precision medicine. For designing and
managing the resulting highly complex, distributed and dynamic ecosystem, we must consistently and
formally represent the system and its components from the perspective of all actors from different
domains including the subject of care, using different methodologies, knowledge, language and
experiences. The granularity level of the considered components may range from elementary particles
up to the society and universe. This must be done, using a system-theoretical, architecture-centered,
ontology-based and policy-driven approach. Over the last 30 years, the author developed the necessary
model and framework, which is meanwhile standardized as ISO 23903 Interoperability and Integration
Reference Architecture. The approach has been defined as mandatory for any specification or project
at ISO, CEN, IEEE, etc. addressing more than one domain. The presented approach enables design,
implementation and management of intelligent and ethical health and social care systems as well as
knowledge-based communication and cooperation of all actors involved. Thereby, it manages also
security, privacy and trust in detail. The Keynote introduces necessary standards and methodologies
for designing and managing 5P medicine ecosystems as well as practical examples.

Biography

Dr. Bernd Blobel studied Mathematics, Technical Cybernetics and Electronics, Bio-
Cybernetics, Physics, Medicine and Informatics at the University of Magdeburg and other universities
in the former GDR. He received his PhD in Physics with a neurophysiological study. Furthermore, he
performed the Habilitation (qualification as university professor) in Medicine and Informatics. He was
Head of the Institute for Biometrics and Medical Informatics at the University of Magdeburg, and
thereafter 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 as well as Head of the globally unique International Interdisciplinary PhD
and PostDoc College. He was and is still leadingly involved in many countries health digitalization as
well as electronic health record strategy. He published more than 600 papers, published/edited many
books and supervised a big number of PhD students from all around the world. He was German
Representative to many SDOs such as HL7, ISO, CEN, OMG, IEEE, ASTM, SNOMED, etc., also
chairing the national mirror groups. Furthermore, he still engaged in international higher education. He
is Fellow of several international academies and played specific roles in global organizations such as
WHO, European Commission, UNESCO, etc. His extended publication list is available at
https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/view/people/Blobel=3ABernd=3A=3A.html.