Dr. Birger Haarbrandt

Accelerating Open Health Data Platforms

Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region

About

Experience

  • vitagroup (7 yrs 4 mos)
    • Principal Technology Strategist
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Head of Technology Advisory & Consulting
      Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      Technology Advisory & Consulting delivers end-to-end eHealth expertise, spanning strategy, project planning, architecture, development and integration. Grounded in open platform principles and interoperability standards, our team designs high-quality data infrastructures and solutions to address complex health informatics challenges for hospitals, governments, and enterprises.

    • Product Manager
      Dec 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs

      Based on international eHealth standards and open source technologies, the Health Intelligence Platform Clinical Data Repository (HIP CDR) empowers healthcare organizations to establish an open application ecosystem around a vendor-neutral data storage.

  • Hannover Medical School (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • IT-Softwarearchitekt
      Jan 2018 - Dec 2022 · 5 yrs

      Working as lead architect on the central component of Germany's COVID-19 data platform (https://www.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de/) Working as co-lead of the semantic interoperability work package and software architect in HiGHmed, a consortium of 9 German university hospitals that establishes an open platform to enhance care provision and research capabilities

    • Research Associate
      May 2015 - Dec 2022 · 7 yrs 8 mos

      Medical informatics research on the use of semantic interoperability standards for (cross-enterprise) data warehousing and analytics.

  • Research Associate at TU Braunschweig
    May 2012 - May 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Medical informatics research about Health Information Exchange (e.g. using IHE XDS standards) and secondary use of data.

  • Software Developer at CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA
    Sep 2008 - Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Software development on CGM MEDISTAR (C++, QT, Oracle SQL)

  • Research Intern at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Jan 2009 - Sep 2009 · 9 mos

    Projects in the context of emergency care (Java, Spring, Struts)