MEDIQ

Oplægsholdere

Internationale eksperter holder en række af oplæggene. Bortset fra mandag formiddag holdes oplæggene derfor på engelsk.

Sam Heard, Chief Executive Officer and Clinical Director, Ocean Informatics, Australia.

Dr. Sam Heard (MBBS, MRCGP, FRACGP, FACHI) is a general practitioner and has been a Senior Lecturer in General Practice, first with London University and until 2002 with Flinders University. He developed a GP clinical system in London in the mid 80's, which is still in use and was a co-author of the original Good European Health Record Project funded by the European Commission. He has worked with Thomas Beale closely since then and their collaboration has formed the hub of the Australian contribution to openEHR.

Sam has written and presented widely on electronic health records and was the principal author of the background document for the Australian EHR Taskforce. He has been the lead on all the GPCG funded GEHR projects and has developed the clinical approach to the groundbreaking archetypes. He was co-chair of the EHR Technical Committee of HL7 International until 2005 (now on the board of HL7 Australia) and remains Chair of the Standards Australia EHR working group. He also has a strong educational background in primary care and has just completed a 3 year term as the Chair of the National Education Committee of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Thomas Beale, Chief Technical Officer, Ocean Informatics, UK

Thomas Beale's (BSc(Comp), BEng) academic background is in Electrical Engineering (communications) and Computer Science. He worked for six years in software engineering in the SCADA (control system) industry, in an environment based on IEEE standards, strict software configuration management, and disciplined project management. Other work experience includes configuration manager and systems architect at British Telecom (Martlesham, UK, 1992-1993), technical advisor for the Good European Health Record project (1994 - 1995), and consultancy in various financial enterprises in Sydney, Australia (1994 - 1997). In 1997, he led the development of a mandate compliance system for one of Australia's leading investment houses, a system which is still in use today. This system was one of the success stories of fully object-oriented technology, being based on Eiffel and the Matisse object database, and resulted in the creation of a publicly available open-source Eiffel persistence library (Ostore).

Since 1998, he worked with the other partners of Ocean Informatics, particularly Dr Sam Heard, on evolving EHR architectures, participating in international standards work (OMG HDTF, HL7, CEN TC 251). During this period, the concept of archetypes was developed and published and prototype systems based on the work were funded by the Australian Government, including the 2002 HealthConnect contract for a openEHR-based prototype for a national EHR system. Current work includes the development of the latest proposals and implementations for standardised EHRs, under the aegis of the openEHR Foundation, as well as continued convergence work in the international standards arena.

Ian McNicoll, Ocean Informatics, UK

Dr Ian McNicoll (MBChB) worked as a GP in the Scottish NHS for 15 years, leaving practice in 2001 to concentrate on his GP accounting software business for which he was the key designer and developer.

This business achieved a 30% market share in the UK and was sold last year allowing Ian to refocus on his original interest in health informatics. This interest began 20 years ago when he worked with the Scottish national GP software (GPASS), and more recently within the Scottish NHS on projects such as health and social care integration, cervical cytology messaging, GP system prescribing safety standards and palliative care extensions to the Scottish Emergency Care Summary (ECS)

As part of his studies towards an MSc in Health Informatics, Ian became aware of openEHR and recognised the potential benefits it could bring to integration and adaptable EHR design He is a member of the openEHR Archetype Editorial Group and for the past year has been working with Ocean Informatics as part of the NHS England CfH Clinical Models team, using openEHR methodologies to define clinical content for national and regional projects.

Knut Bernstein, Health Informatician, MEDIQ, Denmark

Knut Bernstein is a medical doctor since 1984 and he has a university degree in informatics. He is a partner in the consultancy company MEDIQ, having electronic health record implementation, clinical content specifications, terminology, semantic interoperability, data modelling, standardisation and certification as his primary responsibilities. Knut Bernstein’s competences cover broadly health informatics and quality development. In regards to electronic health records (EHR), he has been working with strategy development and dissemination plans, requirement specifications, data modelling, standardisation and electronic communication. He has performed usability assessment, quality labelling, technical validation and testing of EHR systems. He has been working with the use of SNOMED CT in EHR systems. For several years he has made annual reviews of EHR development and dissemination. The user interfaces and the support of clinical work processes while using structured information and clinical guidelines have had his special attention.

Knut Bernstein has been working with systems analysis and development at the National Hospital. Due to his clinical background, he focused on clinical workflow support and user interfaces. He has been working with informatics research and development at The Danish Institute for Health Services Research, and with electronic health records and electronic communication at the Danish Centre for Health Telematics. He has for many years participated in the health informatics standardisation work in Denmark and in CEN, and he participated in development of the first CEN standard for EHR. He cooperates with international groups in the area of clinical archetypes. He has participated in several large EU research projects since 1996, in many as coordinator. He has more than 15 years experience in project management.

Morten Bruun-Rasmussen, Engineer, MEDIQ, Denmark

Morten Bruun-Rasmussen has extensive experience in requirement analyses, system architecture, and technology evaluation as well as thorough knowledge on software development and implementation of large administrative and technical information’s systems. Morten Bruun-Rasmussen has applied knowledge in methodologies and specifications for evaluation, assessment and usability of the quality of all kind of software components and end-user applications.

For more that 15 years he has been working in the area of Health Informatics, with focus on Regional and National Health Care Data Networks, Electronic Health Records, standards, integration and interoperability Morten Bruun-Rasmussen has extensive experience in general management, project management in running of an organisation or company. Morten Bruun-Rasmussen is external reviewer at the Danish Universities in computer science and Medical Informatics. Morten Bruun-Rasmussen is also widely used by the European Commission as an independent expert to evaluate R&D projects in the Information Society Technology and Quality of Life programmes.

Ida Tvede, Projekt Manager, Digital Sundhed, Denmark

Ida Tvede is educated Intensive Paediatric nurse and has several years' additional education from Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

Ida Tvede is working at "Connecting Digital Health in Denmark" and is currently project manager for the Danish Archetype Proof-of-Concept project.

Since 1992 Ida Tvede has been working with health informatics, i.e. with implementation of systems, data requirements and data flow analyses, standardization, National Electronic Health Records, data modelling, concept modelling and translation of SNOMED CT into Danish.

Helen Broberg, Project Manager, Skåne Region, Sweden

Helen Broberg is responsible for the Health Information Structure in Skåne Region.

She also participates in the National Information Structure Programme (TIS). Helen works with archetypes within the Region as well as in National Projects as a part of implementation of the Swedish IT Strategy.

Helen has been active in health informatics standardisation for more than 10 years.

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