Wolfgang Greed

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Wolfgang Giere (born February 3, 1936 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) is a German medical IT specialist .

He researched primarily in the field of medical documentation and plain text analysis and belonged to the generation of early scientists in Germany and Europe who worked in medical data processing.

Life

Giere studied medicine. His doctoral thesis was a "documentation": the biography and bibliographic documentation of the physiologist and Nobel Prize winner Otto Loewi . In 1968, after a few months of preparation, he put his program for the intelligent support of doctor's letter writing on an IBM 360/30 into routine at the Bethesda Evangelical Hospital in Duisburg. This involved a documentation process in which the associated doctor's letter was generated semi-automatically from the respective patient diagnoses. Here Wolfgang Giere used the principles from Zipf's law . In 1972 he refined his methods by using the AGK thesaurus for plain text classification, supported by federal funds for its pilot application by resident doctors. Then there was BAIK, the “documentation of findings and doctor's letter writing in hospitals”, a program package that has grown in routine use since the 1980s and is used to support one of the first electronic patient files. Wolfgang Giere gained international reputation for his efforts on the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System - MUMPS . He wrote about 50 publications in his main research areas. His work was influenced by Octo Barnett of Harvard Medical School and other early specialists in medical informatics.

As part of his professorship, he was responsible for medical informatics in the medical faculty of the Goethe University Frankfurt until 2003.

Publications

  • with F. Lembeck: Otto Loewi, a picture of life in documents. Springer, Berlin / New York 1968.
  • with R. Pirtkien: Use of computers in medicine; Diagnostics with data processing. Thieme, Stuttgart 1971.
  • Findings documentation and doctor's letter writing in the BAIK hospital. Forsytta, Taunusstein 1986.
  • Documentation and preparation of information for the doctor: Contributions to medical informatics. Epsilon, Darmstadt 1996.
  • Experience from medical informatics, travel and congress reports from 25 years. Epsilon, Darmstadt 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klinikum der Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Medical Informatics, homepage until 2003 ( Memento from July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), archive as of October 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ lcs.mgh.harvard.edu ( Memento from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Giere retired. In: Hessisches Ärzteblatt. July 15, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Greed, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical IT specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)