Sylvia Thun

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Sylvia Thun (* 1968 in Cologne ) is a qualified doctor and engineer for biomedical technology. She has been teaching as a professor for information and communication technology in health care at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences since 2011 ; Since 2018 she has been a visiting professor at the Charité and director for e-health and interoperability at the Berlin Institute for Health Research (BIH) of the Charité Foundation . Thun researches topics such as the electronic health record or the electronic prescription and is considered an expert for national and international IT standards in the healthcare sector.

Career

Thun completed an engineering degree in biomedical technology at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Jülich) and a medical degree at the RWTH Aachen . There she received her doctorate in 2001 in the field of radiology with a thesis on magnetic resonance tomography in bronchial carcinoma. med is doing his doctorate. She worked at the Institute for Radiological Diagnostics at the University Hospital Aachen and at other clinical facilities, and programmed a. a. at the MRI.

Between 2000 and 2004 she worked as a management consultant in the healthcare sector, including topics such as treatment pathways , clinical information systems , diagnosis- related case groups, controlling , data protection and quality and project management . At the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) in Cologne, where she worked as a research assistant from 2004 to 2011, she worked on drug information and IT standards for interoperability between software systems in the healthcare sector. In 2011 she was appointed professor for information and communication technology at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. In addition, she is on the scientific advisory board of the mibeg Institute for Medicine and lecturer in other universities and institutes and on the executive committee of the medical society GMDS. Since 2018 she has been working about half as director of the "eHealth and Interoperability" unit at the Berlin Institute for Health Research and the other half as a professor at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences.

Thun is chairwoman of the umbrella organization for IT standards in health care (SITiG), which was founded in early 2017, and is a (board) member and participant in numerous working groups, projects and organizations that deal with medical standardization (e.g. HL7 Germany, IHE Germany , IDDG, DIN Technical Committee Medical Informatics, ISO TC 215 , Horizon 2020 ). In the EU project epSOS (Smart open Services for European Patients), which ran from 2008 to 2014 and was dedicated to the EU-wide standardization of an electronic patient record and an e-prescription, she headed the working group that deals with the semantic level of interoperability between IT Systems in health care.

In 2014 she was named one of the “digital minds” in Germany in an initiative of the Society for Computer Science and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . In 2015 she founded the #SHEHEALTH (Women in Digital Health) network together with Christiane Groß, Chairwoman of the Medical Association.

She contributed the chapters on her specialist areas to the Practice Handbook Integrated Treatment Paths and Practice Handbook IT in Healthcare and is also the author of numerous publications.

Publications

  • Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of central bronchial carcinomas with a non-ionic high-dose contrast agent as part of a phase III study . Dissertation. Aachen 2001.

Co-author

  • Jörg Eckardt, Brigitte Sens (Ed.): Praxishandbuch Integrated Treatment Paths - Designing Intersectoral and Sectoral Processes Professionally . Economica / Medizin-Recht-Verlag, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-87081-430-4 .
  • Christian Johner, Peter Haas (Ed.): Practical Guide IT in Healthcare: Successfully Introducing, Developing, Applying and Operating . Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-41556-0 .

literature

  • “We can afford files on two legs” . (Interview). In: AOK Federal Association (ed.): G + G The AOK forum for medicine, practice and science . tape 2 . Berlin 2019, p. 32-35 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Berlin Institute for Health Research Charité and Max Delbrück Center: Press release: "Digital head" Sylvia Thun comes to Berlin. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Faces: single view. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Sylvia Thun, Professor of IT in Health Care at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences: Science Year 2014 - The Digital Society. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Sylvia Thun: Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of central bronchial carcinoma with a non-ionic high-dose contrast agent in the context of a phase III study . ( dnb.de [accessed on September 26, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b c d National Quality Congress Health: Prof. Dr. Sylvia Thun. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Johner Institute: Prof. Dr. Sylvia Thun | Lecturer. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Guest in the studio: Prof. Dr. Sylvia Thun. January 15, 2016, accessed September 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Berlin Institute for Health Research Charité and Max Delbrück Center: Press release: "Digital head" Sylvia Thun comes to Berlin. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. med. Sylvia Thun - Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Chair of the umbrella organization for IT standards in the healthcare sector . In: Presidium of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences (Hrsg.): Presidium report of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences . Krefeld 2017, p. 37 ( online version [PDF]).
  11. ↑ Board of Directors: HL7 Deutschland eV Accessed on September 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Organization | IHE Deutschland eV Accessed on September 27, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Annegret Hofmann: Prof. Sylvia Thun: More women in the eHealth scene! (Interview). In: gendermed.info. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Thun, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Biomedical engineer and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne