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Dr. Karl A. Stroetmann M.B.A. Ph.D. is Senior Associate with empirica Communication & Technology Research in Bonn, Germany. empirica has established itself as a European institute with a broad understanding of the policy, political, business and socio-economic issues surrounding eHealth research, implementation and validation.
Dr. Stroetmann received an M.B.A. from the Free University in Berlin, Germany and a Ph.D. in Business Administration and Finance from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has been a consultant to the European Commission, OECD and global industrial players. He was / is project coordinator or principal investigator in European projects on eHealth policy and strategic issues, on market validation and business development (various eTEN studies), economic impact assessment (eHealth IMPACT and EHR IMPACT), and in health RTD studies (patient safety; interoperability; semantics; business case development for patient data mining applications to improve clinical use of antibiotics as well as of Virtual Physiological Human [VPH] simulation applications for osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment). Recent work included a foresight study on scenarios for ICT-enabled new models of healthcare, research on financing models, and a representative survey of European GPs.
In Nov. 2002, he and his wife, Dr. Veli Stroetmann, received an award for: „Telemedicine - Human Applications of IT in Medicine" (Integrata Foundation). They regularly publish in peer-reviewed journals and present at international conferences, including the European Union High Level Ministerial eHealth conferences, national eHealth symposia, and European and global scientific and professional meetings.
