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Hello! My name is Yolanda and I'm Senior Healthcare Interoperability Specialist, currently based in Luzern, Switzerland.

7+ years advising organisations on digital health strategy, interoperability architecture, and regulatory compliance at companies like Roche, Fresenius Medical Care, and Dedalus.

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360° Healthcare Vision

Bridging clinical, technical, and regulatory domains. Multidisciplinary background in Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Web Engineering across several international companies.

Data Strategy & Governance

Defining data flows and interoperability strategies at scale. Translating regulatory requirements into commercial value. European Health Data Space (EHDS) expert.

Clinical Digitalization

Translating clinical requirements into digital products across Oncology, Genetics, Dialysis, Diabetes, and Ophthalmology. Deep knowledge of HIS workflows from admission to medication and clinical reporting.

Healthcare Interoperability

Deep expertise in HL7 FHIR R4/R5 and HL7 V2. Authored national Implementation Guides for Switzerland and Spain. HL7 FHIR® Proficient certified. Enterprise Service Bus integrations on InterSystems IRIS.

Seven Years Across Europe's Digital Health

Jan 2026 – May 2026 · Zurich, Switzerland
AHDIS
Senior Healthcare Interoperability Specialist

Led FHIR requirements analysis for the Digisanté project Nasure, focusing on FHIR Structured Data Capture (SDC) and data-structure design for clinical pathogen reporting. Contributed to the matchbox open-source project. Specification and conceptual design of a nursing classification FHIR Implementation Guide (.NET, FHIR IG Publisher, FSH). Active participant in the HL7 FHIR CH Core working group.

Nov 2024 – Dec 2025 · Basel, Switzerland
Roche
Knowledge Engineer · Data Architecture & Interoperability

Member of the Knowledge Engineering & Data Modeling team within the Diagnostics division. Shaped data models and interoperability standards across multiple product lines in the navify portfolio, applying FAIR principles and Data Mesh thinking to enable reusable, governed data services. Worked across clinical, product, engineering, and architecture stakeholders to align on data standards and drive adoption. Delivered FHIR Implementation Guides and reusable data model components as shared artefacts across product teams. Built team capability in FHIR-based data modeling to enable product independence. SAFe environment.

Mar 2024 – Nov 2024 · Madrid, Spain
Fresenius Medical Care
Data & Connectivity Manager · Security Responsible

Sole owner of the national digital health interoperability strategy for 45+ dialysis clinics. Conducted stakeholder workshops with clinical directors and IT leads to assess integration opportunities with referral hospitals. Authored the interoperability requirements for upcoming procurement tenders. Managed external vendors and third-party contracts. Led the ENS security certification programme from zero to successful external audit (Royal Decree 311/2022) — passed on the first attempt. Translated both the interoperability strategy and the ENS certification into commercial value: contributed to pre-sales efforts by framing regulatory compliance and data connectivity capabilities as competitive differentiators in tender submissions.

Oct 2022 – Mar 2024 · Madrid, Spain
Dedalus Healthcare
Healthcare Interoperability Specialist

Designed and implemented the FHIR interoperability layer for HCIS. Dedalus's hospital information system deployed across 10 major hospitals within SERMAS (Servicio Madrileño de Salud), including Hospital La Paz, Ramón y Cajal, Gregorio Marañón, and 12 de Octubre. Defined the generic FHIR interface specification for the Spanish market, translating clinical and regulatory requirements into reusable interoperability artefacts. Coordinated architecture and development teams. Enterprise Service Bus integrations on InterSystems IRIS HealthShare.

Jun 2022 – Oct 2022 · Madrid, Spain
Fujitsu
Healthcare Interoperability Specialist

Defined and implemented the genetics product interoperability strategy. Led FHIR Implementation Guide design for Laboratory Information Systems and Hospital Information Systems. Built FHIR and HL7 V2 integrations in Java for ordering tests and generating interoperable reports.

Oct 2021 – Jun 2022 · Madrid, Spain
Atos
Healthcare Interoperability Specialist · R&D Engineer

Defined and implemented chronic disease management interoperability strategy for ASCAPE European Project and RESAMPLE European Project.

Mar 2020 – Oct 2021 · Madrid, Spain
Grupo Miranza
Technical Lead VEMoS · R&D Engineer

Technical lead for the VEMoS European project. Biophysical modeling, aberrometry, and Fourier-based spectral analysis. Full-stack development in Vue.js and Spring Framework.

Mar 2019 – Dec 2019 · Valencia, Spain
Indra Minsait
Full-stack Software Developer

Back-end development in Java (Spring Framework) and front-end in JavaScript (Sencha Ext.js) for a Pharmacy Information System.

Standards, Tools & Technologies

Healthcare & Interoperability
Standards
HL7 FHIRHL7 V2ISO-11073
Technologies
FHIR ShorthandFHIRPathHAPI FHIRSimplifierForgeFHIR AzureLHC FHIR Tools
Terminologies
SNOMED CTLOINCATCICDHGVSSequence Ontology
Regulations
EHDSENSISO-27001GDPR
💻 Programming Languages
☕ Java
Spring FrameworkJUnitMockito
◆ .NET
C#DapperEntity Framework CoreSQL Server
🐍 Python
FastAPINumPyPandasSciPyMatplotlibSeabornScikit-learnTensorFlow
⚡ JavaScript
Vue.jsAngularNode.jsIonic
Infrastructure & DevOps
🔒 Security
OAuthOpenIDCASJWTKeyCloak
🐳 Virtualization
DockerKubernetesOracle VM
⚙ CI/CD
GitGitHubGitLabJFrogSonarCloud
☁ Cloud
Azure FHIR ServerAmazon S3Heroku
🗄 Relational DB
MariaDBOracleDBPostgreSQL
🍃 NoSQL DB
MongoDB

Key Projects

01
FHIR® Implementation Guide for the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)

FHIR Implementation Guide for the Elektronische klinische Meldung (Electronic Clinical Notification for infectious diseases) of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health.

HL7 FHIR FSH Clinical Terminologies
02
FHIR® Roche Diabetes Care Implementation Guide

FHIR Implementation Guide supporting interoperability for the Roche Diabetes Care RIS product portfolio, enabling FAIR data services for medical devices and digital health products.

HL7 FHIR Clinical Terminologies
03
RESAMPLE H2020 — D4.1: Multi-Modal Data & Disease Progression Monitoring

Public deliverable of the RESAMPLE European Project (H2020). Defined the representation of multi-modal clinical data and disease progression monitoring features for chronic disease management.

H2020 HL7 FHIR Multi-modal Data Public Deliverable
04
Interoperable Platform for Monitoring Patients with Obesity

Master's thesis project: interoperable web platform integrating Spring (backend), Angular (frontend), and FHIR Azure Server for remote patient monitoring in obesity management.

HL7 FHIR Java - Spring TypeScript - Angular and Ionic FHIR Azure
05
Classifying Pathologies Using Acoustic Voice Analysis

System classifying pathologies through acoustic voice analysis using machine learning.

Signal Processing Machine Learning Python - TensorFlow Python - Scikit-learn
06
IEEE 11073 Bluetooth → FHIR Personal Health Devices Gateway

Bachelor's thesis: Health gateway on Raspberry Pi bridging medical devices with health systems via IEEE 11073 Bluetooth → FHIR conversion, enabling remote monitoring and emergency care.

HL7 FHIR Raspberry Pi Java - Spring Python

Education

MSc
Web Engineering
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
BSc
Biomedical Engineering
University of Alicante, Spain
BSc Studied up to 3rd year
Medicine
Miguel Hernández University, Spain

Research & Science Communications

Academic, Research & Teaching Experience

2023 – 2024
Teaching
Guest Lectures — Telemedicine & Biomedical Engineering
Invited by the University of Alicante (Spain) to give a series of talks to Biomedical Engineering students on challenges in implementing interoperable systems.
2014 – 2015
Research
Research Intern | Experimental Embryology Laboratory
Institute of Neurosciences (CSIC-UMH), Alicante, Spain · Summer 2014 & Summer 2015 (6 months total)