I am an expert in health innovation and communication. I currently focus on the visibility of EIT Health’s education portfolio; I do market and audience research to understand how to best design and implement a new marketing strategy.
I have over 10 years of experience in communication and quality management of healthcare projects at regional, national and European levels. I am committed to social change and collaboration. You can always talk to me about women empowerment, patient centre health innovations, worldwide cuisine, and dancing.
What am I up to during INDICATE?
Together with the WP5 team I support the implementation of different communication and education strategies, such as the organization of Hackathons/Datathons and design of educational programs.
In addition, as EIT Health we bring in a network of European partners and engage with the broader European health ecosystem.
Maurizio Cecconi is an anesthesiologist, intensive care specialist, and Chair of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Units at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, Italy. He is the Vice Scientific Director for Clinical Research, and the Vice President of the joint Medicine-Bioengineering degree “MEDTEC School” at Humanitas University in Milan.
He studied in Italy (University of Udine), Spain (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), the UK (St George’s University of London), and the USA (Harvard Medical School), He worked for 14 years as an NHS Consultant UK, before joining Humanitas in Milan, Italy in 2018.
He has authored more than 450 peer-reviewed articles and an H-Index of 95. His research focuses on improving outcomes in perioperative care, data science and artificial intelligence, and the physiology of shock, acute respiratory failure, and sepsis.
He is the Past President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, which he led through the COVID-19 pandemic. He designed and directed the EU-funded C19_SPACE training course, which provided 20,000 healthcare workers with practical training in record time during the pandemic. He is part of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and has collaborated with WHO on the COVID-19 and Influenza Clinical Guidelines.
In 2018, the Italian president nominated him Knight of the Order of Merit (O.M.R.I) of the Italian Republic.
For INDICATE, he collaborates with WP5 and leads the work related to INDICATE at his University.
I am Margo van Mol. With a background as ICU nurse, including 25 years of clinical experience, and educated as health psychologist, I currently work as assistant professor. My research interests focus on the emotional impact of critical illness on patients and their relatives and developing (digital) interventions to support them during and after an ICU treatment.
For INDICATE, I contribute in WP5 Dissemination, Exploitation, and Communication from my role as chair of Nurses & Allied Healthcare Professionals committee of ESICM (2024-2026). I expect to help bridging a discrepancy in what ICU nurses know about data sharing and what is possible to improve the quality of their work. I find it essential to develop nursing data on-boarding and education on digital skills that goes beyond the already established basic competencies.
We are very excited to announce the INDICATE External Expert Advisory Board and the INDICATE Ethics Advisory Board! These experts bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to our project.
These boards play a key role in guiding INDICATE towards patient-centered, ethically responsible, and trustworthy data use in healthcare.
Strategic guidance – Offering expert insights to align the project with cutting-edge clinical, ethical, and scientific standards.
Specialized expertise – Supporting technical and clinical progress in areas like ICU care, AI, and data science.
Community connection – Linking INDICATE to key networks (clinical, start-ups) and research communities to foster collaboration.
A nurse wearing full personal protective gear or PPE because of the COVID19 pandemic tending to something or someone off screen.
The INDICATE Data Protection Workgroup has been established. The responsibilities and tasks include:
Data security and privacy – Oversee the design and implementation of the project’s data management processes, ensuring strong data protection and privacy protocols.
Regulatory compliance – Advise on compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant national or European data protection laws.
Risk assessment – Identify potential data security risks, propose mitigation strategies, and support the development of safe data-sharing infrastructures across European ICUs.
Erasmus MC Contributes to WHO Accreditation for TU Delft
With the support of the AI Ethics Lab at Erasmus MC – co-founded by internist-intensivist Michel van Genderen, Project Coordinator of INDICATE – TU Delft Digital Ethics Centre is accredited by the World Health Organization (WHO). From now on, the centre will advise the WHO on ethical aspects and regulations regarding AI in healthcare.
“AI has great potential to transform healthcare, but that can only happen if what we do is done right,” said Michel van Genderen.
Establishment of the Data Provider Support Workgroup
The INDICATE Data Provider Support Workgroup has been established. The responsibilities and tasks include:
Provide technical and legal support to Data Providers (hospitals making their data available through the INDICATE infrastructure) in setting up the ETL process and establishing data quality assurance and data quality control policies.
Monitor data quality and GDPR compliance after the initial onboarding of Data Providers, in close collaboration with the ELSI experts in WP3.
Develop and implement a structured monitoring plan to continuously monitor relevant KPIs for INDICATE, including the progress of Data Providers onboarding and the volume of data made available through the INDICATE infrastructure.
Implement data audit procedures based on those developed in IMI EHDEN and outlined in the OHDSI handbook.
Who am I? I am Celia Alvarez-Romero and I am the leader for Work Package 2.
I have a PhD in Molecular Biology, Biomedicine and Clinical Research from the University of Seville. I am a researcher of the Computational Health Informatics Group at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, as part of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) in Spain. I have over nine years of experience as a researcher in medical informatics projects at regional, national and European levels.
What am I up to during INDICATE?
For the INDICATE project, my colleagues from the SAS team and I are leading Work Package 2 (WP2), which focuses on defining a common data model for INDICATE.
Our goal is to ensure alignment with internationally recognized standards and vocabularies. In addition, we are contributing our expertise to coordinate WP2 activities and outcomes with other key areas of the project—specifically, the development of the federated infrastructure in WP4, the ethical and legal requirements for data protection in WP3, and the implementation of use cases defined in WP6.
Since 2017, I work at KPMG to accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare.
My background is in Economics and Business economics, during which I quickly realized that technology (e.g. platforms) enables new ways of collaboration and will have a transformative impact. Then I joined KPMG and quickly came to believe that this digital transformation will have the greatest societal impact in healthcare – as well as face the biggest challenges in healthcare. For me, these challenges are in developing shared visions, (digital) strategies and long-term collaborations (governance and operational models) in complex healthcare ecosystems. I support healthcare organisations and collaborations within healthcare, such as public-private partnerships, regional healthcare collaborations, associations and others.
What am I up to during INDICATE? Connected to which WP? Which cases do I work on?
KPMG is a proud partner of INDICATE, with active participation from various disciplines within KPMG and by our offices in the Netherlands and Poland. Our responsibilities include:
Implementation of the technical infrastructure: ensuring that the technology supports all the needs of INDICATE, enabling a secure, trustworthy and federated analysis of data and machine learning, as well as a user-friendly portal.
Ownership and governance model: designing and implementing a sustainable governance for the INDICATE ecosystem, that will ensure the continuity of INDICATE after the project ends. This includes the establishment of a new entity under European law.
Operational model: designing and implementing the operational model for management of the INDICATE ecosystem, which includes the responsibilities that will be centralized within the new entity and the responsibilities that will be federated/decentralized in the broader INDICATE ecosystem.
Other: in addition, we support INDICATE with various (relatively) smaller tasks. Examples are the development of template agreements, supporting the development of business models and assessing the operational maturity of INDICATE at several points in time.
As the project lead for KPMG, I act as the primary contact and coordinate the KPMG involvement within INDICATE. Additionally, I lead the development and implementation of the ownership-, governance- and operational model.
What motivates me to be part of INDICATE? INDICATE brings together all the aspects of what motivates me in my professional career: collaboration in complex ecosystems, societal relevance and impact, implementing new and innovative concepts, and working with a great team – from various organizations, nationalities and disciplines.
I am a professor of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine as well as a medical informatics specialist at University Medicine Greifswald, in north-eastern Germany.
In clinical work I’m the deputy director of our department of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. In research I lead a scientific work group that focuses on investigating and developing clinical decision support systems and intelligent quality management systems for intensive care medicine.
What am I up to during INDICATE? I am the lead for the clinical use case ‘Quality benchmarking dashboard’ in which my team and I provide a system to automatically monitor and benchmark the quality of care across participating hospitals. We are also contributing to data standardization as the foundation for an interoperable infrastructure.
Participating in INDICATE provides the opportunity to cooperate with partners across Europe towards the common goal to provide a common intensive care data infrastructure across Europe. Standardizing the intensive care data infrastructure provides the foundation to share software like clinical decision support systems and intelligent quality management systems which ultimately contributes to improve patient care across hospitals in Europe.
Date: June 5, 2025 Location: De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Spoken language: Dutch
At the Data Driven Healthcare event, you’ll hear all about the latest developments in the field of Healthcare & AI. The question of how to approach this responsibly is essential and will not be left out.
Which challenges in healthcare can we solve with data and AI — and which ones can’t we? How do you approach this? And what are the dilemmas healthcare institutions need to take into account?
In a panel discussion — featuring, among others, INDICATE Co-Lead Michel van Genderen — these topics will be explored. Different perspectives and interests will be represented in the conversation.
Date: September 11, 2025 – September 12, 2025 Location: Hilton Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to impact society in various and profound ways. It is inevitable that health care will face significant changes through the introduction of AI systems that are intended to support the health care system with diagnosis, treatment decision-making, hospital management, medical research and development, nursing care, and the health infrastructure (homecare, insurance etc.) more broadly.
The conference ‘Responsible AI in Health Care’ will clearly map how the introduction of AI in medicine unfolds, which aspects of the health care systems will be impacted most, and how this impact will unfold. First and foremost, it intends to discuss in depth, the question how to shape this transition in a responsible way.
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I am a professor of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine as well as a medical informatics specialist at University Medicine Greifswald, in north-eastern Germany.
In clinical work I’m the deputy director of our department of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. In research I lead a scientific work group that focuses on investigating and developing clinical decision support systems and intelligent quality management systems for intensive care medicine.
What am I up to during INDICATE?
I am the lead for the clinical use case ‘Quality benchmarking dashboard’ in which my team and I provide a system to automatically monitor and benchmark the quality of care across participating hospitals. We are also contributing to data standardization as the foundation for an interoperable infrastructure.
Participating in INDICATE provides the opportunity to cooperate with partners across Europe towards the common goal to provide a common intensive care data infrastructure across Europe. Standardizing the intensive care data infrastructure provides the foundation to share software like clinical decision support systems and intelligent quality management systems which ultimately contributes to improve patient care across hospitals in Europe.
Position: Manager Digital Health and Digital Strategy at KPMG Netherlands
Since 2017, I work at KPMG to accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare. My background is in Economics and Business economics, during which I quickly realized that technology (e.g. platforms) enables new ways of collaboration and will have a transformative impact. Then I joined KPMG and quickly came to believe that this digital transformation will have the greatest societal impact in healthcare – as well as face the biggest challenges in healthcare. For me, these challenges are in developing shared visions, (digital) strategies and long-term collaborations (governance and operational models) in complex healthcare ecosystems. I support healthcare organisations and collaborations within healthcare, such as public-private partnerships, regional healthcare collaborations, associations and others.
What am I up to during INDICATE? Connected to which WP? Which cases do I work on?
KPMG is a proud partner of INDICATE, with active participation from various disciplines within KPMG and by our offices in the Netherlands and Poland. Our responsibilities include:
Implementation of the technical infrastructure: ensuring that the technology supports all the needs of INDICATE, enabling a secure, trustworthy and federated analysis of data and machine learning, as well as a user-friendly portal.
Ownership and governance model: designing and implementing a sustainable governance for the INDICATE ecosystem, that will ensure the continuity of INDICATE after the project ends. This includes the establishment of a new entity under European law.
Operational model: designing and implementing the operational model for management of the INDICATE ecosystem, which includes the responsibilities that will be centralized within the new entity and the responsibilities that will be federated/decentralized in the broader INDICATE ecosystem.
Other: in addition, we support INDICATE with various (relatively) smaller tasks. Examples are the development of template agreements, supporting the development of business models and assessing the operational maturity of INDICATE at several points in time.
As the project lead for KPMG, I act as the primary contact and coordinate the KPMG involvement within INDICATE. Additionally, I lead the development and implementation of the ownership-, governance- and operational model.
What motivates me to be part of INDICATE?
INDICATE brings together all the aspects of what motivates me in my professional career: collaboration in complex ecosystems, societal relevance and impact, implementing new and innovative concepts, and working with a great team – from various organizations, nationalities and disciplines.
