Personalities: DIMDI Director Frank Warda to become ICW Board Member

The 41-year old medical professional will be primarily engaged in the further development of a system for the efficient and secure exchange of information between resident physicians. Additionally, he will work on the further expansion and acceleration of the integration of ICW solutions with existing physician practice management, pharmacy information, and hospital information systems. For this purpose, he will contribute his experience gained in numerous remote medicine and software development projects along with his know-how acquired in his practical work as assistant physician, where he familiarized himself with the information demand of other physicians.

Dr. Frank Warda has been director of the DIMDI in Cologne since May 2002. After studying medicine and graduating in Cologne, he initially worked as assistant physician in internal medicine. During his clinical work, he already occupied himself with developing software for outpatient invoicing and medical documentation. In the following years, his activities always focused on the online communication between the partners in the health care system. As founder of GMD Gesellschaft für medizinische Datenverarbeitung mbH, he was in charge of numerous remote medicine projects and the development of medical documentation software. He is also publisher of many articles in the field of e-health and remote medicine. He recently published the book "Elektronische Gesundheitsakten" [Electronic Health Records], the first one to provide an up-to-date overview of this topic.


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InterComponentWare AG (ICW) is a leading international eHealth provider with locations in Germany, Austria, the USA and Bulgaria. It develops and markets components for networking the different players in the health care industry, among them the hardware connector Medical NTBA and the patient-focused personal health record LifeSensor, the technology leader in this field. As part of the German government-consulting consortium bIT4health, ICW has rendered important consulting services for the introduction of the electronic health card in Germany and is additionally involved in the Austrian eCard project. With its cooperation in national and international steering and work groups for the establishment of an eHealth infrastructure, ICW promotes the standardization aims in the health care industry.