Dr. Florian Fuhrmann started his academic career at the University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg. As a DAAD‐scholar, he completed his master studies in economics in the U.S. and a diploma in business administration in Germany. While working as a management consultant he completed his doctoral thesis. Dr. Florian Fuhrmann has by now been working in the healthcare market for more than 14 years, mostly in the field of ehealth, health care‐IT, managed care and in- and out-patient care. Amongst others he worked for an international IT company, a health insurance, a pharmaceutical company as well as for a national hospital operator. Dr. Florian Fuhrmann is a memeber of the executive board of the asscociation digital health named vdigG, where he is responsible for the resort "care and connectivity". His focus has been on connecting care providers through IT and to make further treatment information available during the treatment process. Since 2014 Dr. Florian Fuhrmann is the founding general manger of KV Telematik GmbH. A subsidiary of the KBV that is responsible for the IT‐infrastructure of direct data exchange (electronic medical reports, laboratory results, billing information etc.) within ambulatory care and its points of intersection to i.e. hospitals. In addition to the further development and operation of the medical communication service, KVConnect, KV Telematik GmbH undertakes KV-specific software projects, which include i.e. the "eTerminservice" for the appointment service points of the KVen (associations of statutory health insurance physicans) and the "emergency app". Dr. Florian Fuhrmann is resident in Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany, together with his wife and four children.