Karl-Peter Pfeiffer, em. o.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. techn.
Responsibilities / Main research
topics
- Classification and discrimination
- Planning and analysis of clinical studies
- Epidemiological methods
- Medical information processing and documentation
- Hospital information systems and electronic patient
record
- Health systems research, DRG-systems, hospital
financing.
- In the last years I have given lectures in:
biostatistics, regression analysis, planning of clinical
studies, epidemiology, medical documentation and
information processing.
- Since 1991 I am one of the project managers for the
development of a new hospital financing system in Austria
(Austrian DRG-system) in duty of the Austrian Ministry of
Health.
- Furthermore I have been involved in many projects and
published many papers in clinical studies, about the
application of information technology in health care, like
clinical information and communication systems, information
systems for patient education, hospital financing systems
and evaluation of information technology in health
care.
Selected activities
in the last years
- Cooperation as a statistican in many clinical
studies
- Cooperation in some projects about application of
informatics in medicine and health care
- Teaching in medical statistics, epidemiology, quality
management in health care, medical informatics and
information processing
- Project manager for the development and introduction of
the Austrian DRG-system at the Austrian Ministry of Health
(since 1991)
- Chairman of the project executive committee for the
introduction of a hospital information system at the
university hospital in Innsbruck
- Cooperation for the development of studies in
informatics at the Innsbruck University
- Scientific director of a university type course for
"Applied informatics" at Management Centre Innsbruck
(MCI)
- Chairman of the team for the development of a study
"Applied Informatics and Management" at the University of
Applied Sciences at the Management Centre Innsbruck
(MCI)
- Scientific director of a course for "Specialist in
medical documentation" at the Ausbildungszentrum West in
Innsbruck
- One of the founding professors for the private
University for Medical Informatics in Tyrol (UMIT)
- Member of the STRING-commission (standards and
guidelines for information technology in health care) at
the Austrian Ministry of Health
- Member of the Austrian committee for drugs safety at
the Ministry of Health
- President and Vice-President of the Austrian-Swiss
Region (ROeS) of the International Biometric Society
(2000-2003)
- Member of the executive committee of the Austrian
Society for Public Health (1997-2004)
- Member of the executive committee of PCS/I (Patient
Classification Systems / International), since, 2002
- Member of the executive committee of the Austrian
Society for Telemedicine
- Member of the executive committee of the subgroup
"Documentation" of the GMDS (Gesellschaft für Medizinische
Dokumentation und Statistik), since 2004
- Member of the ethics committee at the Medical
University of Innsbruck
- Member of the committee for data security at the
university hospital of Innsbruck (TILAK)
- Member of the senat of the Innsbruck Medical
University
- Associate editor of: Biometrical Journal and Methods of
Information in Medicine
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- Born 1953 in Vorau, Österreich
1971-76: Studies in Technical Mathematics, Technical
University of Graz, Austria. Finished with the degree
Dipl.-Ing.
- 1.1.1977 - 30.11.1994: Assistant professor at the
Institute of Physiology, University of Graz. Head of the
working group "Statistics and information processing".
- During this time I have been visiting professor at the
"Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, Zürich" and the
"University of California, Los Angeles".
- 1981: Thesis (Dr.techn.) about "Statistical methods for
the analysis of phenomena of frequency potentiation in
patients with cardiac arrhythmia"
at the Technical University of Graz.
- 1985: Assistant professor (Univ.-Doz.) at the Medical
Faculty of the University of Graz for "Medical statistics
and information processing".
- Head of the "Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for
Epidemiology and Health Systems Research" (1992-1999).
- Since 01.12.1994: University professor and head of the
department (Director) for Institut of Biostatistics and Documentation
(Since 2005: Department of Medical Statistics, Informatics
and Health Economics) at the Medical University of
Innsbruck, Austria.
- Since September 2009: Rector
and Scientific Director of FH JOANNEUM (Graz, Styria)
Publications
Teaching
