Global digital health leadership
Digital Health Strategy | Interoperability & Enterprise Architecture
Designing and scaling connected healthcare platforms through product strategy, interoperability, standards and enterprise architecture.
10+ years across digital health and technology
European healthcare experience
European Commission external expert
Product and platform leadership
Published health informatics researcher
Executive profile
Michael Anywar is a digital health product and strategy leader whose work connects product vision with the architecture, standards and governance required to make healthcare platforms work across organisational boundaries.
His international experience spans Uganda, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany, bringing together consulting, hospital environments, technology ventures, public-sector advisory and health informatics research. He works at the point where strategic ambition must become credible, interoperable infrastructure.
Leadership & experience
Work spanning consulting, health technology ventures, university hospitals and international public-sector initiatives.
EY — Digital Health Excellence Center
July 2025 – Present · Hamburg, Germany
Leading clinical data migration and interoperability work while advising on semantic standardisation, terminology governance, standards adoption and solution architecture for complex digital health programmes.
HygeoniQ Health Technologies
2023 – 2025
Co-founded a standards-based interoperability venture and shaped its product vision, architecture and roadmap across clinical data repositories, terminology services and health information exchange.
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
2020 – 2025 · Kiel, Germany
Delivered interoperability capabilities for clinical care, secondary data use and research across national initiatives, working with clinicians, researchers and multidisciplinary technical teams.
Selected advisory
Expertise
A strategic view of connected health platforms, grounded in standards and credible delivery experience.
Selected work
Initiatives selected for their strategic relevance to connected healthcare infrastructure.
Platform strategy
A standards-based digital health platform initiative focused on interoperable healthcare infrastructure and the foundations needed for connected health services.
Clinical data infrastructure
An interoperable shared clinical data repository initiative designed around structured, reusable clinical information and standards-based exchange.
Semantic interoperability
A terminology governance platform supporting controlled clinical vocabularies, mappings and the semantic foundations of interoperable health systems.
Health system delivery
Standards-based interoperability, clinical integration and health-data infrastructure experience within a university hospital and research environment.
Public-sector advisory
Architecture and advisory work relating to national and public-sector digital health programmes, interoperability and sustainable platform direction.
Research data infrastructure
Contributions to standards-based interoperability and clinical data infrastructure within the German Medical Informatics Initiative, including openEHR-centred information modelling and integration.
National research infrastructure
Clinical data standardisation and integration work supporting interoperable research infrastructure in Germany’s Network University Medicine context.
Medical Data Integration Center
Interoperability, mapping and clinical data integration work at the UKSH Medical Data Integration Center using HL7 v2, HL7 FHIR, openEHR and related standards.
Research
Research at the intersection of clinical data, interoperability and health informatics.
Bankole J, Anywar M, Heykendorf J, Lütje K, Riemenschneider H, Rupp J, Ross P, Schreiweis B
Anywar M, Maron E, Ross P
Bronsch T, Anywar M, Kinast B, Ulrich H, Macedo M, Kruse J, Behrend P, Schreiweis B
Kohler S, Piera Jiménez J, Anywar M, et al.
Anywar M, Macedo M, Pazmino S, Bronsch T, Kinast B, Kock-Schoppenhauer AK, Schreiweis B
Kinast B, Rohde H, Anywar M, Bronsch T, Voran J, Kreidl F, Frank D, Schreiweis B
Ulrich H, Anywar M, Kinast B, Schreiweis B
Andrikopoulou E, Schreiweis B, Anywar M
Anywar M, Schreiweis B, Ulrich H
Anywar M, Pazmino S, Cheng KY, Petersen N, Qian H, Rottmann F, Richter T, Bronsch T, Bergh B, Schreiweis B
Contact
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