Health Informatics CV

Building on a wide range of clinical experience in settings as diverse as Intensive Care and Prison General Practice, I have deep technical and organisational knowledge that I use to assist the development of patient-enabling, robust, clinically safe, real-world tech that can is acceptable to clinical professionals.

Current Roles

Technologies I have experience of

  • NHS Spine Services including GP Connect, e-Referral Service (e-RS), e-Prescription Service (EPS)

  • ‘Ripple Stack’ (openEHR / QEWD.js / EtherCIS / Pulsetile UI) https://ripple.foundation/

  • SNOMED-CT clinical terminology https://www.snomed.org/ and its predecessors CTV3 and ReadV2, as well as other coding schemes used internationally eg ICD-10

  • FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource) Index - FHIR v4.0.1

  • openEHR https://openehr.org/ as a standard, and also experience data modelling using this technology, and working with concrete implementations such as EtherCIS and EhrBase.

  • Opal healthcare application framework https://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk/

  • OpenEyes open source ophthalmology system https://openeyes.org.uk/

  • HL7v2, EDIFACT and similar widely-used but legacy technologies.

Projects by Year

2021

  • RCPCH Digital Growth Charts platform - a complete open-source API platform for calculation of child growth charts.
  • GP Clinician Consultant to Medicus Health - new market entrant in UK & Ireland GP IT systems.
  • Developer, Medicus Health - building open source clinical calculations libraries for the GP IT application.
  • RCGP Health Informatics Group Chair

2020

  • Initiated RCPCH Digital Growth Charts platform - a complete open-source API platform for calculation of child growth charts.
  • GP Clinician Consultant to Medicus Health - new market entrant in UK & Ireland GP IT systems.
  • Developer, Medicus Health - building open source clinical calculations libraries for the GP IT application.
  • RCGP Health Informatics Group Chair

2019

  • RCGP Health Informatics Group Deputy Chair
  • GP IT Futures Advisory Board

2018

  • RCGP Health Informatics Group Deputy Chair
  • Developer, elCID app and OPAL platform, Open Health Care UK (Python/Django/Angular)

2017

2016

  • Developed the Clinical Software Usability Survey question framework, an open source and community-owned series of benchmarking questions for clinical usability of systems. https://www.openhealthhub.org/t/clinical-software-usability-questions/456
  • Chair of the NHS WiFi Programme Advisory Board
  • Team Clinician in the NHS.UK Alpha and Beta projects
  • Discourse Wrangler for ehealthireland.ie
  • Founder - NHoS National Health Operating System (formerly NHSbuntu) - note that this website had to be taken down because of an allegation of brand identity infringement by the UK’s Department Of Health. Further information is available here

2015

2014

  • Founded Leigh Hackspace
  • 2nd Annual NHS Staff WiFi Survey (with Digital Health Intelligence)

2013

  • 1st NHS Staff WiFi Survey conducted
  • Joined RCGP Health Informatics Group as an ordinary member
  • Joined British Computer Society Primary Health Care Specialist Group (BCS PHCSG)

2012

  • NHS Hack Day Liverpool