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Yolanda
Sabuco Garcia

From theory to practice: sharing direct lessons to drive digital health.

+7
Years in Digital Health
5
International Companies
Yolanda Sabuco Garcia
360° Healthcare Vision

Bridging the gap between technical, medical, and executive departments, leveraging a multidisciplinary background in Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Web Engineering.

Data Strategy & Governance

Defining data flows and interoperability strategies across large-scale organizations. Led ISO-27001, GDPR, and the Spanish National Security Framework certification, passed on the first audit attempt. Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP® ) certification in progress.

Clinical Digitalization

Translating complex clinical requirements into digital products across Oncology, Genetics, Dialysis, Diabetes, and Ophthalmology. In-deph knowledge of Emergency, Admission and Outpatient circuits, appointment and waiting list modules, clinical report generation and prescription, medication, administration and dispensing in Hospital Information System.

Healthcare Interoperability

Deep expertise in HL7 FHIR and HL7 V2. Design of Implementation Guides and Enterprise Service Bus integrations. HL7 FHIR® Proficient Certification.

Seven Years Across Europe's Digital Health

Now · Zurich, Switzerland
AHDIS
Senior Healthcare Interoperability Specialist

Creating FHIR Implementation Guides for the Swiss Digital Health ecosystem. Contributing to open-source tools.

Nov 2024 – Dec 2025 · Basel, Switzerland
Roche
Knowledge Engineer

Owned the interoperability layer in Data Architecture department. Drove adoption of FHIR across product teams in a SAFe environment. Enabling FAIR data services for the entire RIS product portfolio.

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

Designed the national interoperability strategy covering 45+ dialysis clinics. Led implementation of a Security Management System and achieved the Spanish National Security Framework (Royal Decree 311/2022) certification on the first audit attempt.

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

Defined and implemented the Hospital Information System interoperability strategy. Led FHIR Implementation Guide design and 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

Interoperability Standards

HL7 FHIRHL7 V2ISO-11073
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Interoperability Technologies

FHIR ShorthandFHIRPathHAPI FHIRSimplifierForgeFHIR AzureLHC FHIR Tools
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Terminologies & Nomenclators

SNOMED CTLOINCATCICDHGVSSequence Ontology
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Regulations

EHDSENSISO-27001GDPR

Java

Spring FrameworkJUnitMockito

.NET

C#DapperEntity Framework CoreSQL Server
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Python

FastAPINumPyPandasSciPyMatplotlibSeabornScikit-learnTensorFlow

JavaScript

Vue.jsAngularNode.jsIonic
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Security

OAuthOpenIDCASJWTKeyCloak
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Virtualization

DockerKubernetesOracle VM

CI/CD

GitGitHubGitLabJFrogSonarCloud

Cloud

Azure FHIR ServerAmazon S3Heroku
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Relational Databases

MariaDBOracleDBPostgreSQL
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NoSQL Databases

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
FHIR® Implementation Guide with Open Source Tools

End-to-end FHIR Implementation Guide development using open source tooling: FSH language, sushi compiler, IG Publisher, and Docker integration.

HL7 FHIR FSH IG Publisher Docker
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

Master's degree in Web Engineering
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Master's
Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering
University of Alicante, Spain
Bachelor's
Bachelor's degree in Medicine
Miguel Hernández University, Spain
Studied up to 3rd year
Partial Degree

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)

Thoughts on Digital Health