Heiko Zimmermann has worked as a software architect and developer in the IT sector for several years, before joining CRP Henri Tudor in Luxembourg in 2009. There he worked on different eHealth related projects for the Ministry of Health in Luxembourg.
In 2012 he joined Agence eSanté, Luxembourg’s national agency for the exchange and sharing of data in the healthcare sector, where he is responsible for interoperability. He is involved in the specification and implementation of the national eHealth platform and is working with vendors and users for the integration of their systems with the national platform.
He has launched together with HL7 Luxembourg several workgroups for the standardization of the medical document content structures (based on HL7 CDA R2) and is also involved in workgroups for the harmonization of codifications used in Luxembourg.
He is working as the national project coordinator for the epSOS project in Luxembourg and represents the Agence eSanté as member of the Luxembourgish consortium for eSens.