Alexander Dobrev
Position
Consultant, Project Manager
Special subjects
Socio-economic and commercial aspects of healthcare and eHealth: impact assessment and evaluation, investment decisions, strategic advice, policy issues.
Professional training
Master of Arts Honours Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford.
Professional experience
With empirica since August 2005, Alexander was involved and now plays a leading part in various consulting and research projects in the eHealth area. Among these are the EC studies "eHealth IMPACT" (2005-2006), "Financing eHealth" (2006-2007), and "EHR IMPACT" (2008-2009), which explored details about the social and economic effects, as well as successful planning, design, and implementation of IT investments in healthcare.
Alexander has taken this experience forward into strategic advice services to healthcare IT vendors and national governments. Recent projects he led include a cost benefit analysis and optimisation support on eHealth investment plans of a large Czech health insurance company (2010) and a regulatory impact assessment on potential eHealth legislation in Switzerland (2010).
Alexander's expertise covers also impact assessment and exploitation planning for large, international research projects (EC FP7), such as "DebugIT" and "HeartCycle". A further field of experience for Alexander is the development of instruments for primary data gathering, including survey questionnaires, interview guidelines, and expert data collection templates. These skills were important in the successful completion of studies such as "Good eHealth", "eHealth Indicators", and "eHealth Strategies".
For details on the different projects, please consult the empirica project list or the project websites below.
Current focus
Alexander is currently focusing on impact assessment and exploitation planning for the FP7 research project "DebugIT - Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology" as a work package leader. He is also substantially involved in developing a self-assessment tool for ex-post and ex-ante evaluation of telemedicine initiatives in the project "ASSIST" for the European Space Agency (ESA).
In September 2010, Alexander took the lead in the EC study “eCareBench”, which builds a scoreboard on the openness to innovation in using eHealth and telecare for coping with the challenges of an ageing population across European countries.
In February 2011, Alexander started a new study for the EC on enhancing procurement of ICT solutions for healthcare in the capacity of project manager at empirica.
Projects
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