Position: Work Package 5

I am Julie Benbenishty I work as a nurse with a PhD degree in an ICU in Jerusalem Israel. I am an educator, clinician and researcher. In addition, I am the deputy chair of the European Federation of Critical Care Nurses. 

With all of the above experience, I am working in WP5 Dissemination, Exploitation, and Communication with my colleagues to promote the INDICATE project and develop educational modules for clinicians and researchers to be able to learn about and utilize INDICATE data to it’s best advantage. In every aspect of the development of the INDICATE project, I try to include nurses, nursing data and research so the nurses’ voice can be heard. My goal is to achieve as much nursing exposure to INDICATE as possible.

• Assistant Professor – Hadassah Hebrew University Medical center
• Academic Consultant Nursing Administration
• Editorial Board International Journal of Human Caring
• Scientific Board Nursing in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
• Vice President European Federation of Critical care Nurses
• Ambassador World Federation Critical care
• Women in Leadership Advisory Member- Mercy University

Position: Work Package 5

Alicia San José, RN, PhD, is a distinguished nursing professional with a global perspective shaped by years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Sweden. Certified sworn translator (English/French), Dr. San José is an effective communicator and advocate for high-quality healthcare within an international environment. 

A passionate educator and researcher, Dr. San José is committed to advancing nursing practice through innovative curricula, simulation-based learning, and impactful international collaborations. Dr. San José is a board member of the European Federation of Critical Care Nurses (EfCCNa).

As a participant in the INDICATE project, a pan-European initiative to create a federated infrastructure for ICU data, Dr. San José contributes to Work Package 5 (Dissemination, Exploitation, and Communication), focusing on data user on-boarding, provision of digital skills training, and educational resources.

Her expertise in nursing education, research, and international collaboration is essential to realizing INDICATE’s vision of a data-driven healthcare ecosystem.

Position: Lead of clinical use case ‘Quality benchmarking dashboards‘

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.

Position: Work Package 2 leader

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.

Position: Professor for Anaesthesia and Anaesthesiological Intensive Care Medicine

I studied medicine in Austria, was trained in Germany, did a research fellowship in the US, and continued working in Germany till recently. I am Professor for Anaesthesia and Anaesthesiological Intensive Care Medicine and the Chair of the Clinical Division of General Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna.

What am I up to during INDICATE?

Providing data, collaborating regarding science, and clinical benchmarking. Think about the future and how the project might improve clinical care and critical care research.