Georges De Moor
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Ostend
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, Belgium
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MD
Doctor of Medicine
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and head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics of the University of Ghent (Ghent
Ghent
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Education
His primary and secondary education was at Saint BarbaraSaint Barbara
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College in Ghent (1960-1972). In 1979 he graduated in medicine
Medicine
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and afterwards specialized in Clinical Pathology
Clinical pathology
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(1979-1983) and Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear medicine
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(1982) before obtaining a PhD, Summa Cum Laude, in Medical Information Science
Information science
-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...
at the University of Ghent in 1994.
Career
Since 1995, he is Professor in Medical Informatics and in Medical Statistics at the University of Ghent and teaches Medical Informatics, StatisticsStatistics
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, Decision Theory
Decision theory
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and Evidence Based Medicine. In addition, he is Head of the Clinical Pathology laboratory at the Saint Elisabeth
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Hospital in Zottegem
Zottegem
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He is president of RAMIT (Research in Medical Informatics and Telematics), and has been involved in many Research and Development projects, as well as in standardization activities. He has founded a number of spin-off companies, such as MediBridge, Custodix and TeleTendo, and also chairs a number of Belgian Government Committees and Scientific and Professional Organizations, such as the Health Telematics Committee
Belgian Health Telematics Commission
The Belgian Health Telematics Commission is a Belgian government committee working on standards for exchanging and sharing of health information, between health care participants. The committee provides advice on eHealth to the Belgian government...
of the Belgian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. He was the founding chairman of CEN/TC251
TC 251
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, the official Technical Committee on standardization in health informatics in Europe. In 2004, he was elected President of the European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec). Georges De Moor is vice chairman of the Belgian Medical Informatics Association
Belgian Medical Informatics Association
The Belgian Medical Informatics Association or Belgian Society for Medical Informatics is a Belgian non-profit organization, which was established in 1974, to promote and develop medical information science and technology in Belgium....
. Together with Jos Devlies
Jos Devlies
Jos Devlies is a Belgian Medical Doctor and an expert in eHealth at the European Institute for Health Records .He graduated in Family Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1969 and in Occupational Healthcare at the University of Ghent in 1972...
and Geert Thienpont, he is the author of the 2006 eHealth strategy and implementation activities in Belgium report.