BB has a multi-disciplinary education, covering mathematics, physics, systems engineering, electronics, medicine, informatics and medical informatics, including habilitations in medicine and informatics. Before his retirement, he was Head of the German National eHealth Competence Center. He was leadingly involved in many countries health digitalization as well as electronic health record strategy. He was and is still engaged in international standardization at ISO, CEN, HL7, OMG, IEEE etc. Furthermore, he still engaged in international higher education. He is author of more than 600 high-impact scientific publications and author/editor of more than 50 books. A publication overview can be found at https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/view/people/Blobel=3ABernd=3A=3A.html.