The openEHR Education Program has recognised two new educators, Rong Chen and Kanthan Theivendran, reinforcing our commitment to building global capability in openEHR and supporting the growing demand for high-quality education in the digital health.
The Education Program develops and maintains the openEHR Body of Knowledge, which serves as a resource for trainers and educators while also guiding the development of our accredited training. Its mission is straightforward: to take openEHR knowledge to the masses and build the skills the global healthcare workforce increasingly requires. The long-term vision is a health and social care industry that understands, trusts and adopts openEHR.
Central to this effort is the openEHR Educator Recognition Program, which validates expertise in openEHR teaching and aligns workforce capability with industry needs. Recognition strengthens credibility for educators and organisations, while giving learners confidence that courses meet high standards. It also supports the healthcare sector in identifying verified skills, ensuring that organisations adopting openEHR can find professionals with proven knowledge and training.
Rong Chen brings more than two decades of experience in health informatics. As Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Head of the Medical Informatics Group at Cambio Healthcare Systems in Sweden, he leads research and development in clinical decision support and knowledge management. A long-time contributor to openEHR, he has led the Java Reference Implementation, authored the Guideline Definition Language (GDL), and currently serves as co-chair of the openEHR Specifications Editorial Committee. He also teaches and supervises graduate students through his academic work at Karolinska Institutet.
Kanthan Theivendran combines clinical practice, research and digital health innovation. A consultant orthopaedic surgeon trained at Imperial College London and University College London, he specialises in trauma and orthopaedics while contributing to research and development within his hospital’s R&D programme. As an Honorary Professor at Aston University, he explores the intersection of biomedical engineering, surgical innovation and health IT, with a particular interest in improving patient outcomes through data-driven approaches.
Their recognition reflects the Education Program’s continued effort to expand the community of trusted educators, while ensuring that professionals entering the openEHR ecosystem have access to credible, high-quality learning pathways.
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