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Birger Haarbrandt
Based on international eHealth standards and open source technologies, the Health Intelligence Platform Clinical Data Repository (HIP CDR) from Vitagroup empowers healthcare organizations to establish an open application ecosystem around a vendor-neutral data storage.
Birger is actively working with openEHR for more than 8 years, substantially contributed to the concept of the HiGHmed consortium, founded the EHRbase openEHR open source implementation, and since 2020 he is also a member of the openEHR Specification Editorial Committee
Erik Sundvall
Experienced engineer and researcher with a demonstrated history of working as information architect, informatician, developer and researcher in the healthcare sector and as researcher+teacher in the higher education industry (LInköping University). Skilled in Software Development analysis, research, data management, Informatics, medical informatics, visualization, teaching and training. MSc in Information Technology and Computer Science. Doctoral degree in Medical Informatics from Linkping University Sweden 2013, entitled “Scalability and Semantic Sustainability in Electronic Health Record Systems”.
Erik is actively involved in openEHR community for many years now, and since 2015 he is also a member of the openEHR Specification Editorial Committee
Erik Vermeulen
EY teams are helping organisations across the entire health spectrum, with harnessing the transformative power of new technology and data. This requires ecosystems to be built around the needs of the individual supported by technical standards, open data models and empowered by governance systems that deliver trust.
Erik is a strong believer on the fact that working with the right combination of standards is pivotal to unleash the power of health data.
Heather Leslie
I am an experienced clinician and health informatician.
For the past 25 years, my focus has always been on how a clinical informatician can bridge between non-technical clinicians and software engineers – ensuring that the clinical needs and requirements are accurately understood by technicians and implementers. My motivation has been to use technology as a tool to make a greater impact on health outcomes than I could from clinical practice alone.
While my recent role has been focused largely on openEHR, the associated skills and experience that I have gained are transportable to many aspects of eHealth and business:
- a clinician informatician for more than 20 years;
- a proven track record in the design and clinical verification of atomic health data and data set specifications;
- a deep understanding of clinical knowledge governance; and
- practical experience in clinician and domain expert engagement.
Henrik Thiess
Henrik Thiess is a Software Developer working on EY Connected Health Cloud team to explore and build support for CDR federation.
Ian McNicoll
Ian McNicoll is a former Scottish GP, and has been involved in healthcare informatics for nearly 30 years, working with and promoting openEHR technologies for the last 15 years, initially with Ocean Informatics and latterly as an independent consultant.
Health informatics specialist, former General Medical practitioner, Ian is also a past co-chair openEHR International. He has a tremendous contribution to clinical modelling and openEHR specification, being member of both Clinical Program and Specification Editorial Committee.
Joost Holslag
Joost Holslag is a physician in-love with IT, actively working with openEHR since 2019, initially for Nedap Healthcare. He is substantially contributed to openEHR clinical modelling and gave valuable feedback insights to several openEHR specifications.
In 2023 Joost became co-chair of the openEHR Clinical Program Board, and also an expert on openEHR Specification Editorial Committee, and a board member of openEHR Netherlands Affiliate (openEHR NL).
Jordi Piera Jiménez
Jordi, BSc, MSc, PhD is dually trained in Computing Science Engineering (BSc) and in Business Management (BSc) by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Further to that, he also holds a MSc in Telemedicine and E-health delivered by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and a PhD on the economic evaluation of digital health innovations under the Information and Knowledge Society doctoral programme also from UOC.
He started working at the service provision in an integrated care organization back in year 2000, first as an analyst and software developer inside the Information Technologies Department where he actively participated in the development and implementation of the Electronic Medical and Social Care Records and in a number of research and innovation projects.
After many years at the service provision side, Jordi moved to the Catalan Health Service where he is currently leading the Digital Health Strategy Office and the development of a new Electronic Health Record which will be built around the paradigm of open platforms and standards.
Matija Polajnar
Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry, skilled in software architecture, Java/Kotlin, SQL, distributed processing, knowledge discovery, and other programming languages, technologies and techniques.
Matija is Technical Lead and Software Architect at BETTER for the openEHR platform development. Since 2019 he is also a member of the openEHR Specification Editorial Committee.
Paul Miller
Paul Miller is a General Medical Practitioner and Clinical informatics specialist at NHS Scotland. He is also the Clinical informatics lead for the NHS Scotland National Digital Platform and is involved in managing the clinical models for the platform data and in educating the team on openEHR. Other areas of interest include clinical safety assessments, clinical terminologies and interoperability.
After many years of contribution to openEHR clinical modeling, in 2023 he became one of the co-chair of the openEHR Clinical Program Board, and more recently one of the founder of openEHR-UK Affiliate Organisation.
Rachel Dunscombe
Rachel Dunscombe is a highly respected figure in the field of healthcare data, a visiting Professor at Imperial College London; Rachel has previously served as Chief Industry Advisor at Dedalus and CEO of NHS Digital Academy where she made significant contributions to the advancement of digital health and the implementation of openEHR standards worldwide.
Starting with September 2023 Rachel was taking up the role of Chief Executive Officer of openEHR International. Her remarkable experience, understanding and leadership in the healthcare industry makes her the perfect choice to guide openEHR into an exciting new chapter and direction.
Rong Chen
Rong Chen, MD PhD, is the CEO of Cambio CDS, where he is responsible for the research and development in clinical decision support and knowledge management.
Rong holds a PhD degree in health informatics on the subject of EHR semantic interoperability from Linköping University, Sweden. He is an associated researcher at the Health Informatics Centre at Karolinska Institutet, where he lectures and supervises PhD and master students.
Rong has contributed to several core openEHR design specifications, and has for many years led the Java Reference Implementation of openEHR. Rong is the lead author of Guideline Definition Language (GDL), which is designed to express clinical logic for scalable decision support with openEHR underpinning.
Since May 2023 he is also a co-chair on the openEHR Specification Editorial Committee.
Severin Kohler
Severin Kohler is a health informatician at HiGHmed, with a strong academic background in Computer Science and Health Informatics. He played an important role in exploring, researching and developing cutting-edge health information exchange solutions. His expertise in data interoperability and healthcare standards has allowed him to bridge the gap between various standards, particularly OHDSI OMOP CDM.
Sidharth Ramesh
A doctor by training, but a developer at heart. Founded Medblocks in 2015, and currently serving customers all around the world to deliver better healthcare. Believes that providing data-driven clinical decisions can save more lives than doctors can, by themselves. Medblocks provides an open-source library for building openEHR interfaces - Medblocks UI. Also providing opinionated open-source backend services for building your openEHR + FHIR-based applications quickly - Medblocks Stack.
Since 2022 he is also a member of the openEHR Specification Editorial Committee.
Silje Ljosland Bakke
Silje Ljosland Bakke is an experienced Clinical Information Modeller and Speaker with 10± years experience in healthcare informatics, with strong skills in analysis, modelling, crowdsource validation, and governance of complex clinical information.
Silje was in the past a co-lead of the Clinical Modelling Program and has a tremendous contribution to many openEHR archetypes published on openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM).
Wouter Zanen
Wouter is an experienced Health Information Architect at Nictiz with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in IT Service Management, IT Strategy, Test Management, Management, and Healthcare. He is involved in openEHR community and various projects for more than 7 years, and contributed decisively to promote openEHR in the Netherlands.
In 2019 Wouter founded openEHR Netherlands Affiliate (openEHR NL) together with Sebastian Iancu and Marcel Swennenhuis, where he fulfills the role of Board Chairman.