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About
I am a research associate at the Institute of Medical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence of the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein and a doctoral candidate at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel). My research focuses on requirements engineering in medical informatics.
These topics range from user requirements for mHealth solutions for digital therapeutics (DTx) and electronic health records to the question of how heterogeneous clinical data can be harmonised and prepared in a semantically interoperable way, so that they become usable for analytical and AI-based methods.
In research projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMFTR) such as ACRIBiS, HiGHmed and NEMO, I am responsible for IT project management from the proposal phase through operational delivery to the final report.
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Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
since 05/2019
Research Associate
Institute of Medical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein
Project management and data refinement in BMFTR-funded research projects, focusing on preparing clinical care data for research and decision support.
06/2019–12/2023
Freelance Application Tester (Silver Level)
Applause App Quality, Inc.
Functional and usability testing of mobile, web and desktop applications for mid-sized, DAX-listed and Fortune 500 companies.
10/2018–05/2019
Master's Candidate
IGES Institut GmbH Berlin, Health Services Research
Health-economic secondary data analysis of cross-sectoral care costs for palliative care patients in Bavaria.
04/2018–03/2019
Research Assistant
Public Reporting Group (Prof. Dr. Uwe Sander), Hannover University of Applied Sciences
Text-mining methods for extracting patient reviews from hospital and physician rating portals.
12/2016–03/2018
Project Coordinator
Corantis-Kliniken GmbH
Coordination of the EU-funded INTERREG V project VIREP on virtual-reality-assisted pain therapy.
2014–2015
Student Assistant
Health Informatics Group (Prof. Dr. Ursula Hübner), Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
Expertise
Requirements engineering in medical informatics
User requirements for mHealth, DTx and electronic health records
Data harmonisation & semantic interoperability (openEHR, HL7 v2/FHIR)
Clinical terminologies & nomenclatures (LOINC)
LLM-based analysis of user feedback on mHealth applications
IT project management in BMFTR-funded research projects
Education & Training
since 09/2020
Doctoral Researcher (Dr. rer. medic., ongoing)
Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Requirements analysis for integrating cardiological care data into a data integration centre: technical specification and maturity assessment for regional and institutional data harmonisation.
2017–2019
Master of Arts, Medical Information Management
Hannover University of Applied Sciences
2013–2016
Bachelor of Arts, Health Care Management
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
2009–2011
Vocational training as IT Management Assistant (Informatikkaufmann)
Fachklinik Bad Bentheim (Thermalsole- und Schwefelbad Bentheim GmbH)
Awards & Scholarships
2024
Mentoring role during the funding phase of the startup "Glowseeker" in the AI Ideation Program of the AI.Startup.Hub Hamburg (Winter Batch 2024).
2021
Doctoral scholarship "Forschungsförderung 2021" of the Faculty of Medicine, Kiel University.
2020
1st place at the UKSH Healthcare Hackathon with "FirstAid KID: Große Hilfe für kleine Patienten".
Teaching & Academic Service
since 2021
Lecture: Hospital Information Systems & eHealth
Human Medicine programme, Kiel University
since 2025
Lecturer in the InSight eHealth project
Teaching in eHealth and project management methods for health IT projects
since 02/2023
Curriculum Committee, Human Medicine
Representative of the Medical Informatics section, Faculty of Medicine, Kiel University (NKLM)
since 10/2019
Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) working group
German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS)
since 2019
Reviewer for national and international conferences
GMDS Annual Conference, Medical Informatics Europe (MIE), MedInfo World Congress
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Publications
First Authorships
Schreiweis, B.*, Kinast, B.*, Bronsch, T., Ulrich, H., Bergh, B. (2026). A Data-Centric Approach for Health Care and Research in a Health Knowledge Management Platform: Implementation and Requirement-Based Evaluation Study. JMIR Medical Informatics 14(e83608). *shared first authorship doi.org/10.2196/83608
Kinast, B., Wiedekopf, J., Ulrich, H., Schreiweis, B. (2025). Extracting LOINC Codes from a Laboratory Information System's Index: Addressing Semantic Interoperability with Web Scraping. Stud Health Technol Inform 324:234–239. doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250194
Kinast, B., Rohde, H., Anywar, M., Bronsch, T., Voran, J., Kreidl, F., Frank, D., Schreiweis, B. (2024). Implementation of an Atrioventricular Valve Intervention Registry: Comparative Study of REDCap vs. CDR-Based openEHR Registry. Stud Health Technol Inform 316:1069–1073. doi.org/10.3233/SHTI240595
Kinast, B., Ulrich, H., Bergh, B., Schreiweis, B. (2023). Functional Requirements for Medical Data Integration into Knowledge Management Environments: Requirements Elicitation Approach Based on Systematic Literature Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research 25:e41344. doi.org/10.2196/41344
Kinast, B., Lutz, M., Schreiweis, B. (2021). Telemonitoring of Real-World Health Data in Cardiology: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(17):9070. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179070
Co-Authorships
Brandl, L., Kröner, S., Strotbaum, V., Grashof, R., Kinast, B., Schreiweis, B. (2025). ePA für alle – alles geklärt? Ergebnisse eines interdisziplinären Panels auf der GMDS-Jahrestagung 2025. GMS Med Inform Biom Epidemiol 22:Doc07.
Bronsch, T., Anywar, M., Kinast, B., Ulrich, H., Macedo, M., Kruse, J., Behrend, P., Schreiweis, B. (2025). Implementation of a Patient Consent Management at a German Medical Data Integration Center. Stud Health Technol Inform 329:1626–1627. doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251134
Anywar, M., Macedo, M., Pazmiño, S., Bronsch, T., Kinast, B., Kock-Schoppenhauer, A.-K., Schreiweis, B. (2024). Challenges and Lessons Learned in Mapping HL7 v2 Data to openEHR: Insights from UKSH Medical Data Integration Center. Stud Health Technol Inform 316:1328–1332. doi.org/10.3233/SHTI240658
Ulrich, H., Anywar, M., Kinast, B., Schreiweis, B. (2024). Large-scale Standardized Image Integration for Secondary Use Research Projects. Stud Health Technol Inform 310:174–178. doi.org/10.3233/SHTI230950
Kock-Schoppenhauer, A.-K., Schreiweis, B., Ulrich, H., Reimer, N., Wiedekopf, J., Kinast, B., Busch, H., Bergh, B., Ingenerf, J. (2021). Medical Data Engineering — Theory and Practice. In: Leucker, M., Lamo, Y. (eds.), HEDA 2021, pp. 269–284. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87657-9_21
Tabak, M., Cabrita, M., Schüler, T., Hörst, D., Heuven, R., Kinast, B., Thomas, A. (2017). "Dinner is ready!": Virtual Reality Assisted Training for Chronic Pain Rehabilitation. Extended Abstracts, Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, S. 283–289. doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131331
Book Chapters
Schreiweis, B., Ulrich, H., Lehmann, H., Kock-Schoppenhauer, A.-K., Kinast, B., Bergh, B. (2024). Die Wissensmanagementplattform für Versorgung und Forschung am Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein — Ein Praxisbeispiel. In: Henke, V., Hülsken, G., Schneider, H., Varghese, J. (eds.) Health Data Management. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, pp. 690–700. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43236-2_58
Kinast, B., Orschulik, N., Heuven, R., Schüler, T., Birmes, B., Heuven, J., Cabrita, M., Tabak, M. (2019). Virtual Reality in der Schmerztherapie — Status quo und Perspektiven. In: Hauck, C., Uzarewicz, C. (eds.) I, Robot – I, Care. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston, pp. 91–110. doi.org/10.1515/9783110558388-005
Further Contributions
Kinast, B., Lutz, M., Schreiweis, B. (2022). Telemonitoring of real-world health data in cardiology: a systematic review. GMDS 2022, Conference Abstract. doi.org/10.3205/22gmds027
Kinast, B., Schreiweis, B., Wiesner, M., Pobiruchin, M., Strotbaum, V. (2020). Preprint, Peer-Review und Co — Wie wissenschaftliches Publizieren funktioniert. GMDS, AG Consumer Health Informatics.
Kinast, B., Schreiweis, B., Strahwald, B., Wiesner, M., Pobiruchin, M., Strotbaum, V. (2020). WirVsVirus — Welchen Beitrag leisten Hackathons? GMDS, AG Consumer Health Informatics.
Kinast, B., Pobiruchin, M., Schreiweis, B., Strotbaum, V., Wiesner, M. (2019). Erst zum Arzt oder gleich die App?! Ein Workshop der GMDS-AG Consumer Health Informatics. Technical Report.
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Contact
For enquiries about research, collaborations or talks, email is the best way to reach me.