Freimut Bodendorf Author & Editor

Prof Nilmini Wickramasinghe is the inaugural Professor–Director Health Informatics Management at Epworth HealthCare and the Professor of Digital Health and Deputy Director of the Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne University as well as an honorary Professor at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. After studying at the University of Melbourne, she accepted a full scholarship to undertake PhD studies in the US in Management of Information Systems as they relate to healthcare contexts. For over 20 years she has been actively, researching and teaching within the health informatics domain.  Her particular focus is on designing and developing suitable models, strategies and techniques grounded in various management principles to ensure that technology solutions effect superior, value-based, patient centric care delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe collaborates with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organizations throughout Australasia, US and Europe and is well published with more than 380 referred, peer reviewed scholarly articles, more than 12 books, numerous book chapters, an encyclopaedia, a patent and a well-established funded research track record. Professor Wickramasinghe is the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals published by InderScience and has successfully taken four separate health technology solutions from idea to realisation in the US. 

Freimut Bodendorf, Dr. rer.pol., Dipl.Inf., graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (School of Engineering) with a degree in Computer Science. He obtained his doctor degree (Ph.D.) in Information Systems. Subsequently he was head of an IS department at the University Hospital and Medical School at the University of Freiburg/Germany, professor at the Postgraduate School of Engineering in Nuremberg/Germany, and head of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Actually, he is director of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and faculty member of the School Business and Economics as well as the School of Engineering. His research areas include Service Design and Engineering, Process Management, and Business Intelligence. Current projects investigate and create solutions in the fields of healthcare, commerce/retail, industrial services (smart factory and supply), and educat