The openEHR team

Severin leads openEHR’s technical direction, making sure the platform keeps pace with a fast-growing implementer community. He combines the role with his position as Head of Product Engineering at vitagroup, which gives him a close, practical view of how openEHR is built and deployed in industry. He spent almost five years as an interoperability researcher at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, contributing to German initiatives including HiGHmed and the NUM CODEX COVID-19 data exchange platform, and is known for his work bridging openEHR, FHIR and OMOP. He has contributed to openEHR’s specification work for several years and is completing a PhD at Freie Universität Berlin.

Paul leads openEHR’s clinical strategy, making sure the voice of clinicians stays at the heart of everything openEHR builds. A former general practitioner, he spent more than seven years as Clinical Informatics Lead at NHS Education for Scotland, managing the clinical models behind the NHS Scotland National Digital Platform and teaching the team about openEHR. He co-chairs the openEHR Clinical Program Board, and his interests include clinical safety assessment, clinical terminologies and interoperability.

Heidi is a health and social care informatics specialist and a Director at freshEHR, where she has worked for more than six years. Her work centres on clinical data modelling with openEHR, HL7 FHIR and SNOMED CT, and she has provided training and support to health and social care projects in the UK, Finland, Sweden and beyond. With a background in social care, including local authority housing and learning disability services in Edinburgh, she has also worked on the openEHR–FHIR collaboration on the International Patient Summary and helped Rosaldo develop openEHR clinical modelling courses for learners worldwide. She sits on the Clinical Program Board Expert Panel and the International Editorial Board.

Keisha is a physician and digital health architect based in Jamaica. Over six years with Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness programmes, she helped shape national digital health strategy and lay the foundations for semantic interoperability, including Jamaica’s adoption of SNOMED CT, and was one of the country’s first representatives to the SNOMED Member Forum. Her international openEHR work includes translating the WHO Antenatal Care Digital Adaptation Kit into openEHR clinical models with openEHR Fellow Nicola Ewen-Hall. She previously worked as openEHR’s Clinical Modelling Coordinator, contributes to the Translation Working Group and leads Lucea Data, a company focused on standards-based connected care in the Caribbean.