Senior Research Fellow

eHealth/Healt IT - applications, strategies and policies, interoperability, impact assessment

Studies at the Academy for Medical Sciences, Sofia/Bulgaria, M.D. degree (1978-1984). Studies in Informatics, Ph.D. in Medical Informatics (1986-1989)

Paediatrician and family doctor (1984/85). MD and researcher in Medical and Health Information Science at the Bulgarian Medical Academy, Sofia (1989-1992). Research fellow with empirica since 1992. - In Nov. 2002, she received an award for: „Telemedicine - Human Applications of IT in Medicine” (Integrata Foundation).

Bulgarian, English, German, Russian

Presently, she coordinates a project for the European Commission to improve semantic interoperability among Member State health systems (SemanticHEALTH - Semantic Interoperability Deployment and Research Roadmap) and is involved in a study on the economic impact of interoperable EHR and ePrescription solutions (EHR-IMPACT), and in longer-term eHealth RTD studies - economic issues and business case development of patient data mining application to improve clinical use of antibiotics (DebugIT) as well as of Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) simulation application for osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment (VPHOP).

Semantic Interoperability Deployment and Research Roadmap: www.semantichealth.org

Economic Impact of eHealth: www.ehealth-impact.org

Economic Impact of Interoperable Electronic Health Records and ePrescription in Europe: www.ehr-impact.eu

Impact of ICT on Patient Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare: www.eHealth-for-Safety.org

Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology: www.debugit.eu