University of Giessen

Postal Address	Giessen Germany
E-mail	joachim.dudeck@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de

Joachim Dudeck - Prof. Dudeck is head of the department of Medical Informatics at the University hospital in Giessen (UHG). He has been involved in the development of medical data dictionaries, knowledge based hospital information and application systems. Since 1993 he is chair of the HL7 user group in Germany and became involved in XML applications in particular in healthcare and as interchange format in messaging. He was also chairman of the CEN TC 251 XML Tasc Force. The institute was partner of the ISIS XML /EDI Pilot Project.