Eberhard Scheuer is Chairman of the Health Information Traceability (HIT) Foundation, whose aim is to promote the digitization of health data in order to improve the exchange of information between healthcare stakeholders. His main interest is the use of blockchain technology in healthcare. He is also the founder of the Digital Health Forum, the leading Swiss conference on digital health, as well as managing director of the Swiss Digital Health Association (SVDG). He has been a lecturer on eHealth at the University of Zurich since 2006. He came into contact with this topic 20 years ago as a psychologist and then as head of Medical Online Consultancy Service at the University Hospital in Zurich.