Thomas Weather

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Thomas Wetter (born February 6, 1953 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German medical IT specialist and university professor .

Live and act

Wetter studied mathematics at RWTH Aachen University from 1971 and received his doctorate in 1976 and 1984. From 1984 to 1996 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher or senior researcher at the Scientific Center Heidelberg (WZH) of IBM Germany . In 1993 he received his habilitation for computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern . He has been Professor of Medical Informatics at Heidelberg University since 1997 .

His research is mainly concerned with knowledge-based diagnosis and therapy support, in particular with patient applications in medical informatics. Wetter spent several months research at the University of Utah ( Salt Lake City , USA) and the University of Washington ( Seattle , USA).

Since 2010 he has been chairman of the International Medical Informatics Association's Working Group on Consumer Health Informatics.

Publications

  • Consumer Health Informatics. New Services, Roles, and Responsibilities. Springer, London 2015.
  • with C. Karmen and RC Hsiung: Screening Internet forum participants for depression symptoms by assembling and enhancing multiple NLP methods. In: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2015, pp. 27–36.
  • with M. Czerwinski, G. Demiris, R. Hsiung and HB Jimison: How safe are users of Consumer Health Informatics? In: Panel, Proceedings AMIA 2014 Annual Symposium. November 2014.
  • with A. Hartzler: Engaging Patients through Mobile Phones: Demonstrator Services, Success Factors, and Future Opportunities in Low and Middle-income Countries. In: Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 2014, pp. 182–194.
  • with B. van Voorhees, B. Kaplan and P. DeMuro: Ethical, legal, and public policy barriers to unleashing the full power of Consumer Health Informatics for care delivery? In: Panel, Proceedings AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium. November 2013.
  • with A. Wicht and U. Klein: A web-based system for clinical decision support and knowledge maintenance for deterioration monitoring of hemato-oncological patients. In: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2013, pp. 26–32.
  • Why is medical software so hard? In: Computer Science - Research and Development. 2008, pp. 127-135.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wiki.bmi.utah.edu ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wiki.bmi.utah.edu
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  3. ↑ Klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de
  4. ↑ B. Kaplan: Foreword. In: T. Wetter (Ed.): Consumer Health Informatics. Springer, Heidelberg 2015, pp. V – vii, here p. V.
personal data
SURNAME Weather, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical IT specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr