OpenEHR Professional Members

Andjela Pavlovic, MD

Andjela is a medical professional, trained at the University Clinical Center of Ljubljana. Motivated by a great desire to expand her knowledge and apply medical expertise in innovative ways within the realm of health information technology, she embarked on a journey into openEHR in 2022. Joining Better, Slovenia as a Business Analyst, she played an integral role in the development of numerous health IT solutions, focusing particularly on Clinical Data Modelling.

Better builds powerful digital products that help doctors and nurses treat people. We are dedicated to leveraging the power of design and technology to exchange and use health data for seamless care coordination and constant innovation to ensure the best health outcomes for all. With three decades of proven record at the technological forefront and vast domain knowledge, we are trusted by leading academic medical centres, children’s and community hospitals, research and other healthcare institutions in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Norway, Finland, Italy and more.

Andraž Koželj

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Andraž Koželj is a Senior Technical Lead at Better. He is highly skilled in technology and has a deep understanding of individual operating principles, allowing him to learn and solve problems quickly in unfamiliar contexts.

Andraž specialises in openEHR and healthcare application development and has been instrumental in delivering comprehensive openEHR training to both partners and customers. Since 2019, he has conducted extensive training sessions for over 50 companies, educating more than 500 individuals. His expertise covers a broad range of key areas, including openEHR fundamentals, AQL training, and the use of Archetype Designer, with a strong focus on modelling principles and openEHR software development using development platforms and low-code tools.

He has experience in leading groups and presenting products, and he can communicate complex concepts at a high difficulty level, but can also break them down into simple explanations for different audiences.

In his free time, Andraž is a sports enthusiast, enjoys good music and is an avid reader who enjoys learning new things.

David Moner, PhD

David Moner is a Computer Engineer and PhD at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is currently CTO and consultant on semantic interoperability and eHealth standards at openEHR Industry Partner VeraTech for Health. Previously, David worked as a full-time researcher in health information systems and EHR standards in UPV. Since 2005, David has focused on the practical application of health information standards and terminologies such as openEHR, ISO 13606, HL7 CDA, HL7 FHIR, CDISC ODM, SNOMED CT or LOINC. He has participated in more than 30 research and applied projects, and has more than 50 publications in this field, including his PhD thesis titled “Archetype development and governance methodologies for the electronic health record”. In the education area, David has given academic training about semantic interoperability and EHR standards in the Master of Biomedical Engineering of the UPV, in the Master of Medical Informatics of the University of Alcalá de Henares, and as part of medical informatics courses in the Computer Engineering degree of the UPV. He has also provided on-demand professional training in ISO 13606, openEHR, HL7 CDA, HL7 FHIR and SNOMED CT, having trained over 500 clinical and technical professionals in the use of these standards.

Dr Paul Miller, MBChB, MRCGP, DRCOG

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Paul is a General Practitioner and Clinical Informatician. 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.

Clinical informatics lead for the NHS Scotland National Digital Platform, Paul is also General Practitioner and Clinical Informatician.  As a clinical informatics lead for the National Digital Platform he 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.

Dr Ramy Azzam

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Dr. Ramy Azzam is a seasoned healthcare executive with over 18 years of professional experience in the fields of internal medicine, digital health, and healthcare management. Currently based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dr. Azzam holds an MBBS, an MBA in Healthcare Management from Geneva Business School, and an MPH in Global Mental Health from King's College London (pending a dissertation).

Dr. Azzam's career has been marked by his leadership in deploying innovative health technologies and developing data-driven population health programs across diverse sectors such as insurance, telecommunications, retail, and pharmaceuticals in the Middle East and Africa. As the Virtual Health Manager at Mediclinic Middle East in Dubai, he has spearheaded the strategic design and implementation of primary care and chronic disease management programs, achieving significant improvements in patient satisfaction and operational efficiencies.

Previously, as the Regional Medical Director for MeetingDoctors in Barcelona, Spain, Dr. Azzam led the expansion of telehealth services across MEASAT, EU, and LATAM, greatly enhancing service adoption and platform functionality. His efforts in regulatory compliance and quality standards have notably contributed to the licensing of the first European telehealth provider in the UAE.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Azzam excelled as a Medical Director and Lead Telehealth Specialist at Health at Hand Healthcare in Dubai, where he was instrumental during the COVID-19 pandemic, scaling operations to meet skyrocketing demand. He started his medical career in Egypt, serving as an Internal Medicine Resident at the Egyptian Armed Forces’ medical services, where he played a crucial role during the Arab Spring protests.

Dr. Azzam is certified in several specialties including Telehealth by the American Board of Telehealth and holds additional certifications in AI in Healthcare, Medical Epidemiology & Statistics, and Data Analysis & BI. His skills span strategic healthcare management, digital health innovation, and chronic disease management, making him a pivotal leader in transforming healthcare delivery through technology.

Services offered

•             Clinical Modeling: By incorporating openEHR's clinical modeling methodologies, I aim to standardize data structures and terminologies across the health programs I manage, ensuring data consistency and interoperability.

•             Enhancing Data Analytics: Utilizing openEHR frameworks to structure data in a way that enhances the capability of advanced analytics and business intelligence tools. This would support our ongoing efforts in prescriptive analytics and population health management.

•             Developing Customized EHR Solutions: Leading the design and development of customized electronic health record (EHR) systems based on openEHR standards, tailored to meet the specific needs of chronic disease management and primary care programs.

•             Research and Development: Engaging in R&D to explore new possibilities for applying openEHR in emerging healthcare technologies such as AI-driven diagnostics and virtual health consultations.

Mediclinic Middle East is part of Mediclinic Group, a diversified international private healthcare services group, with divisions in Switzerland, Southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia) and the United Arab Emirates, and a 29.9% shareholding in Spire Healthcare, a UK-based healthcare group.

Dr Sidharth Ramesh, MD

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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.

Providing consulting services for:
1. Setting up openEHR server - Cloud/on-premise
2. openEHR Clinical Modelling and Template Designing
3. Building openEHR based applications and forms from openEHR templates
4. Integrating and helping with Medblocks UI into your existing frontend application
5. Dashboards and analytics using AQL on openEHR repositories
6. Setting up SNOMED CT server - Cloud/on-premise
7. SNOMED CT mapping and Reference set creation
8. Setting up an FHIR server - Cloud/on-premise
9. Building and deploying SMART on FHIR applications
10. FHIR Profiling and clinical modelling

Convert your current EHR into an integrated suite that contains all your current applications without disrupting your existing workflows. A single place to manage all your data, gain insights and make data driven decision to improve patient care and outcome.

Hanna Pohjonen, PhD

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Hanna is a healthcare IT consultant at Rosaldo Oy (her own consultancy company). She has worked in 30 different countries in Europe, North-America, Middle East and Asia; she is specialized in big regional and national healthcare IT/eHealth projects. She has an extensive market knowledge in the area. She has provided consultancy regarding healthcare information systems and IT architectures, vendor neutral archiving, data sharing (XDS, openEHR), shared workflow, data privacy and security services as well as innovative eHealth applications and services, especially across organizational and national borders. She has special experience in benchmarking, IT and procurement strategies and roadmaps, cost/benefit analyses in the whole life cycle of the eHealth investment, quality assurance, applying new innovative technologies, change management and development of new service models based on IT tools and services. 

Before consultancy she worked in research both in UK and Finland, hospital environment and healthcare financing. She also represented Finland in eHealth matters in the European Commission.

Hanna is a healthcare IT consultant at Rosaldo Oy (her own consultancy company) and is openEHR Ambassador for Finland. 

Heather Grain ADip HIM, Dip TDD, GDip IS, MHI, FAIDH, FMU, FIAHSI

Heather is a Consultant Terminologist, Data and EHR Implementation Specialist and Educator at Global eHealth Collaborative  GEHCO.org Australia

Her professional background is within digital health education, a specialist working in academic and vocational training for organisations, professional bodies and governments around the world assisting in practical, safe, future focused system design and implementation and workforce skill development.

Leadership positions current or held in the last 10 years with HL7 International, ISO TC215 Health Informatics Information Governance and Semantic Content, ISO TC249 Traditional Chinese Medicine, and SNOMED International (education).

Global eHealth Collaborative (GeHCO) is a not for profit organization established to create partnerships and collaborations that support and enable information technology to advance sustainable, quality healthcare.

Heather Leslie MD, FRACGP, FACHI

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Heather is an experienced clinician informatician with a long history of involvement in international digital health standards. Her primary focus for many years has been on developing high-quality 'little data' to establish a coherent health data ecosystem. She has extensive expertise in clinical information modelling, clinical knowledge governance, data quality and safety, and engagement with clinicians and domain experts.

As principal of Atomica Informatics (2018- ) her everyday work is involves data standardisation in international and national eHealth programs, including supporting logical model development for Australia’s Sparked FHIR accelerator.  Heather was a leader of the openEHR Clinical Modelling program from 2008 to 2021 and administrator of the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager until 2023.

Heather Leslie is an experienced clinician and health informatician, Principal at Atomica Informatics and previously co-lead of the openEHR International Clinical Modelling program.

She has a strong background in information modelling, especially design and clinical verification of atomic health data; a deep understanding of clinical knowledge governance, data quality and safety; and extensive experience in clinician and domain expert engagement. She has also had a long history of involvement in digital health standards, including coordinating the openEHR clinical modelling program since inception in 2008, and as an Australian representative at ISO TC215 for 5 years.

Heidi Koikkalainen

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Consultant and researcher in health and social care informatics, specialising in international data standards and the openEHR data modelling approach.

'My work involves providing clinical modelling training and support to various client organisations internationally, and collaborating with the openEHR community to create standardised data models for health and social care information systems.

Also working on research projects investigating the data and digital landscape in the health and social care sector in the UK. My specific research interests include data standardisation and semantic interoperability of information systems and social care data analytics/AI.'

freshEHR Clinical Informatics offers clinically-led informatics consultancy services based on over 30 years experience in the field, with a solid background in front-line clinical practice and real-world experience of electronic health and care record use and development.

We believe in open standards as the fundamental approach to modern health and care applications.

Ian McNicoll, MBChB, MSc

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Ian 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 8 years, initially with Ocean Informatics and latterly as an independent consultant.

His current focus is on the promotion of the Apperta open e-health platform ecosystem, with openEHR at its core, and the development of a related Development Platform, adopted by NHS England as a key part of their Code4Health initiative.

A Director of the openEHR Foundation Board. Previous Chair of the openEHR Management Board, and Director of the International Board from March 2019 until November 2022.

freshEHR Clinical Informatics offers clinically-led informatics consultancy services based on over 30 years experience in the field, with a solid background in front-line clinical practice and real-world experience of electronic health and care record use and development.

We believe in open standards as the fundamental approach to modern health and care applications.

Jan de Lange

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Experienced Senior Marketing Professional, specialist at the interface between innovation in healthcare and strategic marketing.

Founder of eFORZE, focussing on successful international digital innovation in healthcare and connecting innovators to create synergy.

Initiator of the online Masterclass openEHR, in cooperation with Hanna Pohjonen.

Services offered: 

• Strategic marketing in digital healthcare
• Connecting innovators to create synergie
• Online Masterclasses openEHR for care professionals, governments and companies (both national and international classes).

Koray Atalag, MD, PhD, FAIDH

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Trained as a medical doctor but an engineer at heart and self-taught full-stack developer, Koray has done his PhD in health informatics on openEHR and is a Foundational Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (FAIDH). With almost 30 years of experience in digital health as a developer, academic researcher and entrepreneur, he has a strong background in EHR & health information architectures, interoperability with hands on implementation experience on key standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR and SNOMED-CT. Koray's mission is to fix healthcare by enabling patient-centred, personalised, and value-based appropriate care through interoperability and digital health solutions.

Koray has been contributing to standards development and governance at a global scale, religiously to openEHR as a domain expert and former member of the first openEHR Foundation Management Board. Koray is also a founding member of HL7 Turkey and has been on HL7 New Zealand Board since 2011. He is also a member of the ISO TC/251 Taskforce on Telehealth and Virtual Care.

Koray currently serves as Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) and Head of Research at The Clinician, a New Zealand headquartered digital health company he co-founded that offers the ZEDOC Platform and services for patient engagement and managing Patient Generated Health Data (PROMs/PREMs and objective biometric data) to drive value-based care.

He recently founded GALATA-Digital LLC-FZ as his own consultancy business in Dubai and looking to engage with exciting and innovative projects offering services with a focus on openEHR, FHIR and digital twins underpinned by EHR, AI, Genomics and Computational Physiology - all brought together by effective use of industry standards.

Luis Marco-Ruiz, PhD

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Luis Marco-Ruiz, PhD, is a data engineer at HIGHmed Consortium, who focuses his work on the adoption of information standards and terminologies for clinical data reuse and clinical decision support. He holds a MSc in Applied Statistics and a PhD in Health Science.

Since 2007 Dr. Marco-Ruiz has participated as a developer, advisor, and researcher in private- and public-funded projects in Norway, Germany, the UK, and Spain. In 2013 he joined the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research where he works in the development of national data reuse infrastructures and advises the Norwegian health authorities on the adoption of clinical information standards and biomedical ontologies. In addition, he works as a semantic interoperability specialist at the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics (Hannover Medical School) developing a cross-institutional data reuse network for the HiGHmed consortium, which involves the Hannover Medical School, Heidelberg University Hospital, and University Medical Center Göttingen, among others.

Luis is a member of openEHR SEC Expert Panel and Education Program Board.

Monica Jones, BSc (Hons) PGCE PGDip MBCS CITP MInstLM

Monica is the Chief Data Officer for the HDRUK Data Research Hub for Cancer – DATA-CAN, Associate Director HDR North and also the Executive Lead for Population Health Management for the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record (YHCR). 

A highly motivated technical expert and leader with extensive Healthcare and Life Sciences knowledge and experience. ISEB qualified Enterprise and Solutions Architect with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, high value solutions to exceptional standards. She has many years’ experience defining and directing current and future information systems. As the Managing Director of Animo Consultancy Ltd she has provided consultancy services for CRUK, MRC, Genomics England, NHS England and the MOD.

Her NHS frontline experience most recently was as CIO at the Rotherham NHS FT where she was responsible for the leadership, development and delivery of high quality Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics support, to inform the decision making ability of clinicians, staff and managers at all levels of the organisation (from ward to board). The Trust was rated “Outstanding” for Digital in 2019. 

An effective communicator used to working on major public and private sector initiatives, who is able to integrate teams to achieve their maximum potential. International clinical terminology and data standards (SNOMED CT, ICD-10, HL7 FHIR) expert promoting safe and effective health information for better patient outcomes. She is the Deputy Chair of the NHS Digital Data Design Authority (DDA) and Chair of the YHCR Data Architecture Design Authority (DADA).
 

Managing Director of Animo Consultancy Ltd, Monica has provided consultancy services for CRUK, MRC, Genomics England, NHS England and the MOD. She is currently the Chief Data Officer for the HDRUK Data Research Hub for Cancer – DATA-CAN, Associate Director HDR North and also the Executive Lead for Population Health Management for the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record (YHCR). She has many years’ experience defining and directing current and future information systems.

Norbert Schmidt

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Company owner, app and platform developer for clinical use, connecting laboratories in a decentralised manner, and hosting a platform for anticoagulant management for over 15 years

Professional background: IT development and project management for more than 20 years with strong experience in science and clinical fields.

DDCare have more than 15 years of experience in hosting and connecting healthcare systems. "We embrace openEHR as an important standard for designing, storing and exchanging electronic health data. openEHR enables healthcare organisations to use standardised and modular data structures to improve the interoperability of health information. This can lead to improved quality and safety of healthcare and a better experience for patients."

Paul Swider

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Paul Swider is the Chief Philanthropy Officer for RealActivity, a Boston-based SaaS startup focused on physician burnout and compensation equity in healthcare. Paul founded and serves the global Boston Healthcare Technology Community and the local Boston Microsoft Power Platform Community. Paul is a part-time healthcare technology analyst for the Acceleration Economy network and sits on multiple Microsoft technical conference committees.

A global pioneer in clinical informatics, Paul has traveled over 1.5 million miles on seven continents to 104 TCC countries to organise user groups and events and speak at conferences. His community work throughout Africa, LATAM, Palestine, the Caribbean, and Puerto Rico is held in high regard, and many of the user groups and communities he launched are still thriving today.

Paul is an accomplished author of several developer books and is an international expert in distributed cloud software development and decentralized enterprise blockchain. He was first certified as a Microsoft engineer (MCSE. MCSD, MCT) in 1996 and has held enterprise certifications from Microsoft since that time. Paul was Awarded Azure MVP for 2019 and Azure most Influential in 2020. Paul has 24 years of experience working on teams developing mission-critical clinical applications for large hospital systems.

RealActivity are partnered with Microsoft, working on training and interoperability with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Offering health openEHR and FHIR interoperability consulting services globally.

RealActivity.

Renaud Subiger

Renaud Subiger is a solutions architect with a passion for digital health and interoperability. He has been working on designing and implementing various systems within the Java ecosystem for over 17 years now.

Since 2016, Renaud has been involved in significant healthcare projects such as MyHealth@EU, NUM-CODEX, SiNCP, and has also participated in several IHE Connectathon events. Through these experiences, he has gained an extensive knowledge of standards like FHIR, openEHR, the IHE profiles, and DICOM.

Renaud believes in open standards and platforms. He is a member of the openEHR SEC Expert Panel and contributes to HAPI FHIR and EHRbase projects.

Simon Gash

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Simon has spent the majority of his career in healthcare building a huge variety of clinical information systems. This culminated in an award-winning real-time patient flow management platform for Plymouth Hospital Trust. This platform was his first introduction to using openEHR in an existing solution.

Currently Simon is Head of Products and Architecture for Future Perfect, and is designing and building clinical solutions that use openEHR to as the repository for the patient electronic record.

Senior and experienced team from across clinical, digital, and governance skills, who have come together to develop and deploy the means to make health and care maximally intelligent. We advise, develop, produce and deploy the means to intelligent health and care.

Engaged to advise several genome programmes and e-Prescribing implementations, with clinical safety consulting ensuring safety standards DCB 0129 and DCB 0160 and can support Medical Device certifications.

Future Perfect (Healthcare) employs technical development experts in the openEHR standard, which is of growing importance in making healthcare far more integrated in the UK and across Europe. Future Perfect openEHR tools enable integration and interoperability, essential to deploying advanced analytics, clinical decision support and AI. 

Thomas Beale

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Thomas is one of the founders of openEHR International and is the chief technical architect and editor of the openEHR specifications, and was the co-chair on the Specifications Editorial Committee (SEC) up to 2023. He is also a openEHR CIC Board member.

He has participated in international standards work (OMG HDTF, HL7, CEN TC/251) for many years. He designed the archetype formalism (ADL), object model (AOM) (an ISO standard), the Basic Meta-Model (BMM), and much of the Task Planning and Decision Language specifications.

He has consulted for Intermountain Healthcare, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and various ministries, departments of health and other public agencies in places including Australia, UK, Brazil, Jamaica, Denmark, Sweden, and Catalonia.

Thomas's academic background is in Electrical Engineering (communications) and Computer Science. His earlier professional work was in real-time distributed control (SCADA) systems for power, gas and mining; investment management and finance, and document and software configuration management systems.

He has published a number of papers in health informatics and has presented widely on the patient-centric EHR, the model-based platform eco-system, and e-Health strategy.

Thomas is VP Informatics at GraphiteHealth.

Ars Semantica provides consulting and development services for the e-health, biomedical and pharmaceutical domains. Expertise includes:

• Development of e-Health strategy
• How to radically improve Procurement & tendering
• e-Health Standards Development
• Semantic Architecture
• Clinical Process Support
• Using Biomedical Ontologies