Director of the Core Unit eHealth & Interoperability at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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Prof. Sylvia Thun is director of the Core Unit eHealth & Interoperability at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin as well as professor for Information and Communication Technologies at the Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. Her primary research interests are in IT standardization, semantic interoperability, and eCommerce in healthcare. She graduated with Ph.D. in medicine from Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen in 2001, after which she held positions as a senior consultant for SYNAIX Healthcare and as a research assistant at the German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information, Cologne and Ministry of Health in Bonn where she worked on terminology and classification, drug information, and interoperability between software systems in the healthcare sector. In 2011 she joined Hochschule Niederrhein and in 2014 became the director of their eHealth Competence Center.