Chief Executive Officer
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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 ground-breaking 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. |
Chief Technology Officer
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Thomas Beale (BSc(Comp), BEng) has an academic background 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 fully object-oriented mandate compliance system for one of Australia's leading investment houses, a system which is still in use today.
Since 1998, he has worked with the other personnel from Ocean Informatics on building the knowledge-enabled EHR of openEHR, and participating in international standards work (OMG HDTF, HL7, CEN TC 251). During this period, he developed the Archetype Definition Language (ADL), now a CEN standard, and soon an ISO standard. He is currently chair of the openEHR Architectural Review Board, and continues to be active internationally in health informatics.
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Peter Schloeffel
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Dr Peter Schloeffel has qualifications in both medicine and computing. He worked for IBM for seven years before studying medicine and subsequently made the decision to combine these two careers. He is a founding director of Ocean Informatics and works as a clinical health informatics consultant, and is also a part-time GP.
Dr Schloeffel has long had an interest in EHR and standards relevant to clinical computing. He is currently chair of the Standards Australia EHR Committee and a member of the National Health Information Standards Advisory Committee. He is an active member of several other committees and working groups involved in the standardisation of EHRs.
He has been an Australian delegate on ISO/TC 215, co-chair of the ISO EHR Ad Hoc Group, and a member of the CEN EHR taskforce. Dr Schloeffel is also a founding member of the open EHR Foundation based in London and is currently acting chairman of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of openEHR. |
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Dr David Rowed has qualifications in electrical engineering, science and medicine. He is a practicing clinician in Sydney and has been actively involved in postgraduate medical training over many years.
He has lectured in IT systems design for the NSW Institute of Technology, and has developed commercial fault-tolerant systems for practice management, and hospital-based clinical applications. He was a member of the consulting team and chaired the GP Expert Committee of the 1997 IBM GPCS Consultancy. He was project director of the 1998 GPAC/NSW Health GP IM&T Strategy Development, and chairs its current Implementation Steering Group. He was a key member of the consulting team for the recent GP Data Model and Dataset project.
Since 1998, Dr Rowed has represented Standards Australia at HL7 meetings where he is a member of the Patient Care, and Clinical Decision Support Technical Committees, as well as the Community Health Special Interest Group, which he was instrumental in setting up. He is the chair of the Standards Australia Working Group IT14/6/6 Referrals and Health Service Messaging. |
Chief Operations Officer
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George Hayworth (BEng) is a software engineering professional with 20 years experience leading software teams in the delivery and maintenance of high integrity software systems - where the consequences of error are high. Since 2001 he has worked in the health environment, validating and deploying health applications. George joined Ocean Informatics in 2005, and has taken a lead role in project, product and Development Team management. |
Director of Business Strategy
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Ognian Pishev (PhD, MCompSc) was awarded his Ph.D. in international business in 1981. During the 1980s he worked for the Bulgarian computer industry as director for market and economic research. At the end of the 1980s he joined the emerging democratic opposition in Bulgaria as its economic adviser and later became the first Bulgarian post-Communist ambassador to the US (1990-1994). Having left public service he set up Vitosha Software (1995), a Bulgarian Internet service and software development company. In 1997 he moved to Australia where he works as a software and business consultant in the area of outsourcing, object technology and business applications. Joined Ocean Informatics in 2001. |
Clinical Director 
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Hugh Leslie (MBBS, FRACGP, FACHI) is a General Practitioner who is experienced in facilitating software development by bridging the gap between clinicians and technicians. He has designed and built innovative clinical software applications for both primary care and hospitals and led large software application implementations linking multiple hospitals with primary care clinicians. Hugh joined Ocean Informatics in 2005 and has been integrally involved in business strategy, Ocean tool development and openEHR consulting. |
Director of Clinical Modelling
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Heather Leslie (MBBS, FRACGP, FACHI) is a General Practitioner and has participated in high-level health IT strategy development, as well as taking a hands-on role in creating software applications for use by Australian primary care clinicians and consumers. She was a leader in Personal Health Record development in Australia, supporting consumers to take a more active role in their health care, and this remains a strong personal interest. Heather joined Ocean Informatics in 2005, taking on a lead role in the authoring, review and governance of openEHR archetypes and templates. |
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