This includes:
- management of the network infrastructure and questions of governance (e.g. with regard to achieving interoperability),
- regulatory aspects of MII,
- the relationship between MII and health and research policy,
- the relationship between MII and health economics, and
- collaboration and exchange with European and international organisations.
The National Steering Committee appoints members of the Scientific Advisory Board for a term of four years. The members of the board are:
M.D. James J. Cimino (Director UAB School of Medicine, Informatics Institute, USA)
Prof. Dr. Sabine Koch (Strategic Professor of Health Informatics and Director of HIC, the Health Informatics Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Prof. Dr. Christian Lovis (University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland)
M.D., PhD Gerrit Meijer (Translational Gastrointestinal Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, UMC Utrecht)
Genevieve Morris (Integral Health Strategies, USA)
M.D., PhD Lucila Ohno-Machado (Professor of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Yale – School of Medicine, USA)
Morten Elbaek Petersen (Danish eHealth Portal, sundhed.dk)
Dr. Stefan Sabutsch (Head of Standards & Usability, ELGA GmbH)
Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen (Europ. Ethikrat, Köln)