Dr Robert A. Stegwee is a seasoned professional in Information Management, acting on the edge of information and organization. During more than seventeen years at the Healthcare Consultancy Group of Capgemini Consulting, he pioneered the development of consultancy work on IT related topics, including EHR, HIE and PHR.
Robert gained a broad range of experience and extensive knowledge of the healthcare industry through a wide variety of projects, mainly on the strategic and tactical levels. He is actively involved in the development of standards for interoperability in healthcare, as chair of the board of HL7 Netherlands and chair of CEN/TC 251 on Health Informatics. Since its inception he has been part of the Joint Initiative on SDO Global Health Informatics Standardization, coordinating the development of standards across Standards Development Organizations.
As a professor of e-Health Architectures and Standards he has guided and supervised students in their research on the application of IT in healthcare. On the research side he currently represents Capgemini in the COMMIT consortium, focusing on Trusted Healthcare Systems with many academic and industry partners.