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. |
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
 Dr Heather Leslie
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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. |
Development Manager
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Heath Frankel is Health Informatics Consultant years of experience in design and development of clinical information systems with an emphasis on shared health records, system interoperability and electronic referrals. In the past, Heath has specialised in Health Level 7 (HL7) clinical messaging, with a unique expertise in HL7 V3 Care Transfer/Record and its relationship to Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support. Heath joined Ocean in 2004 as leader of Ocean's development team. He has overseen the design & development of all Ocean's recent product development and contibuted extensively to the ongoing openEHR specification development. |