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Thomas KaropkaHead of eHealth Department, IT Science Center Rügen (Germany) http://www.it-science-center.de/ |
Thomas Karopka has over 20 years working experience in the area of information and communication technologies. After working for 10 years in industry, he moved to academia where he worked for 5 years in the area of bioinformatics. Since January 2007 he is head of the eHealth department of the IT Science Center Rügen gGmbH, an institute of applied research that works as a knowledge transfer center in informatics for the Universities of the State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He is currently co-chair of the Libre/Free Open Source Software Working Group of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI LIFOSS WG) and vice-chair of the International Medical Informatics Open Source Working Group (IMIA OS WG). He is a member of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology and the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth.