Georg Heidenreich is a German engineer, currently Manager for Healthcare IT Standards at Siemens AG Healthcare. He is an expert on eHealth and the COCIR Healthcare IT Committee Vice-Chairman.
Education
editHe went to college at Ratingen and graduated with a diploma in computer science from the Erlangen Nuremberg University 1990. In 1996 he received a doctoral degree in engineering from the Erlangen Nuremberg University. In 2004 he received formal recognition as a teacher for software at Professional Schools.
Career
editGeorg Heidenreich started his career as a consultant towards Siemens AG in 1990. In 1998 he signed up as an employee with Siemens AG (then: Siemens Medical Solutions) as a Software Architect. Since March 2005 is the manager for healthcare IT standards at Siemens AG Healthcare, mainly focussing on information models and semantic interoperability. He also contributed as an expert to the report on the EC "eHealth" Mandate M403:2007. He served as a guest lecturer in Software-Engineering at the Erlangen Nuremberg University from 2001 to 2008
Patents
editThe following patent applications published by the US Patent Office list Georg Heidenreich as an inventor:
US 20070283156 Method for identifying a patient for later access to an electronic patient record for the patient using a communication device belonging to an inquiring person
US 20080091468 Method and apparatus for delivery of medical items on an electronic prescription
US 20080282095 Method For Transferring And/Or Providing Personal Electronic Data Of A Data Owner
US 20090006134 Referencing of patient-related information in a distributed medical system (EU: DE 10 2007 027)
Activities
editVice-Chair DIN Medical Technology – Interoperability NAMED G7 AA02 (towards ISO TC215 WG 2)
Vice-Chair COCIR Healthcare IT Committee
Member, German Informatics Professional Association, Ges. f. Informatik, (GI e.V.), Bonn
Founding member, ALUMNI Technische Fakultät (ATE e.V.), Erlangen
Member, HIMSS Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society, Chicago
Associate Director, HL7 Germany e.V., Cologne, Germany
Co-Author of the EC Mandate Report on eHealth Standardisation M403:2007, Directorate Enterprise, Brussels
Participant in eight standardization & regulatory committees incl. IEC/ISO “Health Informatics” JWG 3,
and groups in DIN and DKE (national German tags towards ISO , CEN and IEC)
Published Work
edit[HEI94] G. Heidenreich, D. Kips : Projektflußgraphen - Ein Meta-Modell zur Unterstützung der Qualitätssicherung im Software-Engineering. In: Proc. "Quality ´94 - Fünfte Internationale Fachmesse und Kongreß für Qualitätssicherung", Stuttgarter Messe- & Kongreßgesellschaft mbH (eds.), Stuttgart, 17.05 - 20.05.1994 - Ulm, Müller Adreß- und Neue Medien GmbH 1994, pp. 282-287 , Ulm, 1994
[HEI95a] G. Heidenreich, D. Kips: Project Flow Graphs - A Meta Model for Quality Assurance in Software Engineering. In: Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Industrial Engineering and Production Management, Marrakesch, 03.04. - 07.04.1995, FuCaM, Mons (eds.), Band 1, pp. 347-357 , Mons (B), 1995
[HEI95b] G. Heidenreich, D. Kips: A General Model for Engineering Databases. In: Proc. 1st World Conf. on Integrated Design & Process Technology, Austin, TX, Dec. 07th – 09th, 1995, Society for Design & Process Science; Proc IDPT-1, Texas Tech University (eds.), Lubbock (TX), 1995
[HEI96a] G. Heidenreich, M. Minas, D. Kips, : A New Approach to Consistency Control in Software Engineering. In: Proc. 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, Rombach et al. (eds.), Berlin, March 25th – 29th 1996, pp. 289-297, Proc. ICSE-18, ACM, New York, 1996
[HEI96b] G. Heidenreich, D. Kips, V. Volle: A Database for Configuration Management. In: Proc. 7th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Wagner et al. (eds.), Zürich, Sept. 09th – 11th 1996, IEEE, pp. 243-248, Proc. DEXA '96, Wien, 1996
[HEI96c] G. Heidenreich: Ein generisches Organisationsschema der Konfigurationsverwaltung im SW-Engineering, Fachberichte des IMMD 29-13, Dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, 1996
[HEI96d] G. Heidenreich, M. Minas, J. Landauer: Interval Construction with Partially Ordered Object Versions, Proc. INTE 96, Würzburg, 1996
[HEI01] G. Heidenreich: Objektorientierung und UML, Lecture Notes, Siemens-Technik-Akademie, Erlangen, 2001
[HEI03] G. Heidenreich, J.Göpel: "Content Management senkt Archiv-Kosten", Computerwoche 37, Sept. 12th 2003, IDG BUSINESS VERLAG GMBH, Munich, 2003
[HEI04a] G. Heidenreich: "Content Management senkt Archiv-Kosten", Informationweek 2004, May, 01st 2004, IDG BUSINESS VERLAG GMBH, Munich, 2004
[HEI04b] G. Heidenreich: "Sauber dokumentiert", CIO-Journal, IDG BUSINESS VERLAG GMBH, Munich, 2004, see also: http://www.cio.de/index.cfm?pid=181&pk=803207 of June 2nd, 2004
[HEI06] G. Heidenreich: "J2EE Framework" Lecture Notes, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, 2006
[HEI07a] G. Heidenreich: "Web-Services in ITI" IHE-Infotag Frankfurt, Oct 1st 2007, see also: http://www.radiologie-aachen.de/ihe_d/IHE_D_Vortraege/IHE-D_20071001_06_WebServices_IHE_GH.pdf
[HEI07b] G. Heidenreich, Christoph Dickmann: "Semantic interoperability in eHealth", in: CeHR Conference Proceedings 2007, Editors: B. Blobel, P. Pharow, J. Zvarova and D. Lopez, March 2008, IOS Press, Amsterdam, ISBN: 978-1-58603-834-2
[HEI07c] G. Heidenreich: "Ensuring patient's safety through the standardisation of electrical medical equipment", Webinar, HIMSS EMEA, Brussels, 12.09.2007, see also: http://www.ehealthnews.eu/content/view/708/37/
[HEI08a] G. Heidenreich: "The German Health Telematics Project", in S. Arnold, W. Wieners (editors): Electronic Health Records - A Global Perspective- HIMSS, Chicago, August 2008, see also: http://osrin.net/docs/200808_EHRGlobalPerspective_whitepaper.pdf, or http://www.ehealthserver.com/publications/white-papers/17-electronic-health-records-a-global-perspective-white-paper
[HEI08b] M. Reynolds, C. Parisot, P. Angelidis, G. Heidenreich: "Report to the European Comission - Mandate on eHealth Standardisation M403:2007", NEN, Delft, 2008, see also: www.ehealth-interop.nen.nl/
[HEI08c] G. Heidenreich: "Allergie-Dokumentation – Wie kann ein HL7-Modell ausssehen ? ", HL7 Benutzergruppe Deutschland e.V., Köln, 2008, see also: http://www.hl7.de/download/veranstaltungen/jahrestagungen/2008/heidenreich.pdf
[HEI09a] G. Heidenreich, B. Blobel: “IT-Standards in der Telemedizin”, to appear in: Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, March 2009