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
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Chair - RCGP Health Informatics Group
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Founder - openhealthhub (formerly openGPSoC)
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Founder & BDFL - Leigh Hackspace - a Code4Health community
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Discourse ‘Wrangler’ behind the UK CCIO and CIO Networks’ Discourse forums
Technologies I have experience of
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NHS Spine Services including GP Connect, e-Referral Service (e-RS), e-Prescription Service (EPS)
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‘Ripple Stack’ (openEHR / QEWD.js / EtherCIS / Pulsetile UI) https://ripple.foundation/
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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
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FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource) Index - FHIR v4.0.1
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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.
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Opal healthcare application framework https://opal.openhealthcare.org.uk/
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OpenEyes open source ophthalmology system https://openeyes.org.uk/
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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
- Clinical Adviser to Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) Child Health Events project
- Developer for Endeavour Health Charitable Trust’s ‘Discovery’ Platform (Angular4/Java)
- Organiser of NHS Hack Day 15 held at Federation Manchester, July 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
- Won the 2015 Rewired State & NHS England Obesity Data Prize for work on Clinical Calculator API
- 3rd Annual NHS Staff WiFi Survey
- Clinical Software Usability Survey (with Digital Health Intelligence)
- Discourse Wrangler behind the UK UK CCIO and CIO Networks’ Discourse forums
- Organiser of NHS Hack Day 11 - Manchester (the first NHS Hack Day held in Manchester)
- NHS England / Rewired State Obesity Data Prize (1st) for https://github.com/open-health-hub/clinical_calculator_api
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