Wednesday, October 15
18:00 – 20:00
Pre-conference mixer
Join us for networking before the main event. First drink free, courtesy of![vitagroup Logo](https://openehr.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Sponsor-logo-on-prog-140-x-40-px.png?ver=1755608307")
Thursday, October 16
8:00 – 9:00
Registration
Collect your badge and EHRCON25 goodie bag
Foyer
9:00 – 9:40
Welcome & 10 achievements for openEHR in the past year
Prof. Rachel Dunscombe (openEHR CEO), Tomaž Gornik (openEHR Co-chair) & Dr Jordi Piera Jimenez
Sala Teatre
9:40 – 10:05
Keynote: AI: the agentic future
Bart de Witte (Hippo AI Foundation)
Sala Teatre
10:05 – 10:25
Keynote: Identifying top global growth opportunities for openEHR adoption in 2025 and beyond
Douglas Brown (Black Book Research)
Sala Teatre
10:25 – 10:30
The ePatient perspective (video)
’ePatient’ Dave deBronkart
Sala Teatre
10:30 – 11:00
Refreshments
with thanks to our sponsor
Foyer
11:00 – 12:30 | Breakout Sessions
Sala Teatre: The AI landscape
11:00 – 11:25
Running large scale analytics on openEHR: lessons from the past and plans for the AI-driven future
Dr Seref Arikan (Ocean Health Systems)
11:25 – 11:50
AI: the regional perspective
Dr Jordi Piera Jimenez (CatSalut)
11:50 – 12:30
Panel: AI, standards and openEHR
Panellists: Dr Jordi Piera Jimenez (Catsalut), Dr Bernhard Geist (AWS) and Dr Seref Arikan (Ocean Health Systems)
Facilitated by Jovan Pavićević (Better)
Sala Raval: European session
11:00 – 11:20
Europe’s data sovereignty challenges and initiatives in healthcare
Muhammad Shoaib (NTT Data Inc.)
11:20 – 11:40
openEHR adoption in European infrastructures for biomedical research: the BBMRI-ERIC colorectal cancer cohort use case
Cecilia Mascia & Giovanni Delussu (CRS4)
11:40 – 12:00
openEHR in the D(A)CH Region – shared challenges, shared responses
Pascal Biermann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), Alina Rehberg (Medical School Hannover)
and Emmanuel Eschmann & Hendrik Heiser (CISTEC)
12:00 – 12:20
openEHR and low code – stronger together
Martin van der Meer & Bouwe Koopal (CODE24/Maarsingh & van Steijn)
Mirador: Quick-fire clinical
11:00 – 11:20
Long time no see: reconnecting eye care and openEHR
Dr Lars Furhmann (German Society of Ophthalmology)
11:20 – 11:40
openEHR for radiotherapy
Sophie de Klerk & William Mensen (Hanze University of Applied Sciences)
11:40 – 12:00
Optimising the clinical process for prostate cancer
Sjors Liebregts (Daigo Health)
12:00 – 12:20
EHACare Mobile: Transforming primary healthcare with AI-driven clinical decision support
Victor Okrobodo (EHA Clinics)
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
courtesy of our sponsor
Lunchtime sessions – Sala Raval
Dr Marcus Baw (openEHR): Discourse drop-in session
Dr Lars Fuhrmann (German Society of Ophthalmology) Pitchfest: explaining openEHR
Dr Marcus Baw (openEHR): Discourse drop-in session
Dr Lars Fuhrmann (German Society of Ophthalmology) Pitchfest: explaining openEHR
13:30 – 15:00 | Breakout Sessions
Sala Teatre: Digital frontiers
13:30 – 13:45
The impact of AI on digital economy law and regulation
Rory Macmillan (Macmillan Keck)
13:45 – 14:30
Panel: Now what? Deciding on the strategic evolution of health information systems
Panellists: Erik Sundvall (Karolinksa University Hospital), Dr Amanda Herbrand (x-tention Informationstechnologie AG), Pablo Serrano Balazote (Servicio Cantabro de Salud)
Facilitated by David Moner (Veratech, openEHR Education Program Board)
14:30 – 15:00
Presentation TBC
Luke Readman, NHS London
Sala Raval: Innovation
13:30 – 13:45
The value of innovative openEHR solutions to customers
Angus Forth (Big Picture Medical)
13:45 – 14:00
Bridging clinical workflows and AI: how openEHR enables the next generation of digital assistants
Dr Mandana Ahmadi (Isaree)
14:00 – 14:15
There’s an app for that – openEHR in action
Dirk Rossbach (HighMed)
14:15 – 15:00
Panel: openEHR-enabled innovation
Panellists: Dr Mandana Ahmadi (Isaree), Dirk Rossbach (HighMED), Angus Forth (Big Picture Medical)
Facilitated by Jan de Lange (eFORZE/Masterclass openEHR)
Mirador: Population health
13:30 – 13:50
Building pandemic-ready infectious disease control with openEHR
Loes Jaspers (GGD GHOR Nederland)
13:50 – 14:05
Beyond the patient: openEHR for public health
Dr Joost Holslag (GGD GHOR Nederland)
14:05 – 14:35
Value-Based Care on openEHR and secondary use
Dr Koray Atalag (GALATA-Digital)
14:35 – 15:00
The digitalisation of the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP) and openEHR International
Dr Remko Schats (Enigma Global eHealth)
15:00 – 15:30
Refreshments
with thanks to our sponsor
Foyer
15:30 – 15:55
Open health data platforms and AI
Dr Nils Hellrung (vitagroup)
Sala Teatre
15:55 – 16:20
Transforming healthcare delivery: where openEHR and AI co-operate
Benjamin Muhič (Better)
Sala Teatre
16:20 – 16:40
Keynote: AI & cognitive science: where the magic happens
Special Guest
Sala Teatre
16:40 – 17:00
The David Ingram Award & Summary of Day 1
Prof. Rachel Dunscombe (openEHR)
Sala Teatre
19:00 – 02:00
Evening meal, wine and entertainment
courtesy of our sponsor
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Cal Pinxo restaurant
Friday, October 17
9:00 – 9:10
Recap of Day 1
Prof. Rachel Dunscombe
Sala Teatre
9:10 – 9:40
Keynote: The future of standards
Grahame Grieve (HL7)
Sala Teatre
9:40 – 10:05
Keynote: Sparked AU: community and collaboration as the driving force for change
Kate Ebrill (CSIRO, Sparked AU)
Sala Teatre
10:05 – 10:30
Data4Life strategy from Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre
Dr. Juan Luis Cruz Bermúdez (Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid)
Sala Teatre
10:30 – 11:00
Refreshments
with thanks to our sponsor
Foyer
11:00 – 12:30 | Breakout Sessions
Sala Teatre: Practical applications
11:00 – 11:30
Embedding phase 1 cancer research trials into openEHR clinics for electronic data capture of medical dictionary of regulatory activities
Dr John Powderly (Carolina BioOncology Institute & BioCytics Human Applications Lab)
11:30 – 12:00
Store legacy EHR content using openEHR and FHIR and let users access it (almost) as before!
Erik Sundvall (Karolinska University Hospital) & Dr Ian McNicoll
12:00 – 12:30
Translating openEHR archetypes – shared challenges, smarter solutions
Åsa Skagerhult (Region Östergötland)
Sala Raval: Spotlight
11:00 – 12:00
Digital wallets workshop
Grahame Grieve (HL7) & Rory MacMillan (Macmillan Keck)
12:00 – 12:30
Showcase: openEHR Fellowships program and EHRCON25 scientific publications
Dr Lars Fuhrmann (German Society of Ophthalmology), Nicola Hall (Ministry of Health & Wellness, Jamaica)
Mirador: Real-world solutions
11:00 – 11:30
Open standards + open formats: Using openEHR on Apache Iceberg at scale
Poornachandra Vivekananda (Medblocks)
11:30 – 12:00
Evolving an EHR into the open ecosystem
Martin Grundberg & Fernando Campos (Cambio Healthcare Systems)
12:00 – 12:30
Let’s be SMART about it: converging openEHR and FHIR
Sebastian Iancu/Dr Sidharth Ramesh (CODE24/Medblocks)
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch
courtesy of our sponsor
Lunchtime session – Sala Raval
Dr Sam Heard & Thomas Beale (openEHR Foundation) Things left outstanding: Extracts, IPS, and CKM Models: navigating alignment and data sovereignty nationally and internationally
Dr Sam Heard & Thomas Beale (openEHR Foundation) Things left outstanding: Extracts, IPS, and CKM Models: navigating alignment and data sovereignty nationally and internationally
13:30 – 15:00 | Breakout Sessions
Sala Teatre: New horizons
13:30 – 14:00
Charité’s journey with openEHR: towards a future-proof research infrastructure
Severin Kohler (BIH @ Charité)
14:00 – 14:30
Unlocking health data: driving care, research, and innovation across Europe
Pablo Serrano Balazote – Deputy Director of Healthcare, Cantabria
14:30 – 15:00
Just use SQL: Why openEHR doesn’t need to be this hard
Dr Sidharth Ramesh (Medblocks Inc.)
Sala Raval: Tech session
13:30 – 13:50
Advancing unified digital health platforms: the role of the Clinical Knowledge Manager in bridging openEHR and FHIR®
Dr Sebastian Garde (Ocean Health Systems)
13:50 – 14:10
Why use openEHR for demographics? The CODE24 perspective
Sebastian Iancu /Martin van de Meer (CODE24)
14:10 – 14:30
Advancing openEHR Guideline Definition Language (GDL): towards a process-centric, intelligent healthcare
Dr Rong Chen (Cambio) & Dr Xabier Michelena Vegas (CatSalut)
14:30 – 14:50
openEHR to OMOP: Open tooling for open research
Diego Bosca Tomas(Veratech)
Mirador: Co-design
13:30 – 13:50
Co-creating clinical applications: scalable openEHR approach to safer and more efficient care
Sofia Kauppila (Tietoevry)
13:50 – 14:10
Three novel design requirements for supporting clinical reasoning in EHR interfaces
Dr David Pao (Royal College of Arts)
14:10 – 14:30
From prototype to practice: real-time openEHR with speech AI
Julian Kempf and Maks Kasprzyk (Anamedi)
14:30 – 14:50
Measuring collaboration
Cindy Throop (CDC Foundation)
15:00 – 15:30
Refreshments
with thanks to our sponsor
Foyer
15:30 – 15:35
OHDSI/Vocabularies
Alexander Davydov
Sala Teatre
15:35 – 16:20
Panel: The future of standards (open and community)
Panellists: Luke Readman (NHS England); Grahame Grieve (HL7); Kate Ebrill (CSIRO); Dr Heather Leslie (Atomica) and Dr Ian McNicoll (freshEHR). Facilitated by Matt Cox (vitagroup).
Sala Teatre
16:20 – 16:30
Closing remarks
Prof. Rachel Dunscombe
Sala Teatre
Mandana Ahmadi, PhD
Mandana Ahmadi, PhD
Mandana Ahmadi is an entrepreneur who founded and led Alena, a company developing digital therapeutics for clinical mental health conditions based on rigorous scientific methods. She earned an Honours degree in Physics from the University of Maryland, followed by a PhD in Computational Neuroscience at UCL. Motivated by the goal of improving healthcare, Mandana has co-founded Isaree to give clinicians simpler access to AI tools. Through Isaree, healthcare professionals can quickly set up medical and administrative AI agents without the usual hurdles of integration or monetization. By making these agents available at a voice command, Mandana hopes to widen access to high-quality care and lower barriers for both providers and patients.echnical lead of this team.
Dr Seref Arikan
Dr Seref Arikan
Dr Seref Arikan is a software developer, consultant, and technical lead at Ocean Informatics UK, where he has contributed since 2010. He began working with openEHR in 2002 and has been an active contributor to its community and mission ever since. Seref holds a PhD in medical informatics from UCL CHIME, where his research – supervised by Professor David Ingram – explored integrating openEHR with AI for clinical decision support. He has released various open source software for openEHR as early as 2009, and has contributed to the Specifications Editorial Committee since 2018. With a background in B2B and B2C systems and deep expertise in analytics, persistence, scalability and clinical platform development, Seref’s current focus is on implementing openEHR persistence and AQL specifications. He remains a core member of the openEHR International community, engaging in both technical leadership and peer support.
Koray Atalag, MD, PhD
Koray Atalag, MD, PhD
Trained as a medical doctor but an engineer at heart and self-taught full-stack developer, Koray has done his PhD in health informatics on openEHR and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (FAIDH). With almost 30 years of experience in digital health as a developer, academic researcher and entrepreneur, he has strong background in EHR & health information architectures, interoperability with hands on implementation experience on key standards such as openEHR, HL7 v2, FHIR and SNOMED-CT. Koray has been contributing to standards development and governance at a global scale, in particular to openEHR. He was a member of the first openEHR Foundation Management Board and has been heavily involved in clinical modelling and software development. Koray is also a founding member of HL7 Turkey and has been on HL7 New Zealand Board since 2011 serving as vice-chair for one term. He is also an expert member of the ISO TC/251 Taskforce 7 Telehealth and Virtual Care Services. After 14 years of academic research at the University of Auckland, Koray co-founded The Clinician ,delivering a low-code SaaS solution for patient engagement and electronic PROMs & PREMs to drive value-based care. He recently started his consultancy business (GALATA-Digital) and looking to engage with exciting and innovative projects offering services with a focus on openEHR, FHIR, Value-Based Care and Digital Twins.
Dr Marcus Baw
Dr Marcus Baw
Marcus Baw is a portfolio GP and clinical informatics and GP IT consultant based in Yorkshire. Over the past 22 years, he has built a varied clinical practice, including both hospital and community roles. He currently combines national and international health technology policy and software development with his work as a locum GP and in Emergency Medicine.
Thomas Beale
Thomas Beale
Thomas is one of the founders of openEHR International and is the chief technical architect and editor of the openEHR specifications, and was the co-chair on the Specifications Editorial Committee (SEC) up to 2023. He is also a openEHR CIC Board member. He has participated in international standards work (OMG HDTF, HL7, CEN TC/251) for many years. He designed the archetype formalism (ADL), object model (AOM) (an ISO standard), the Basic Meta-Model (BMM), and much of the Task Planning and Decision Language specifications. He has consulted for Intermountain Healthcare, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and various ministries, departments of health and other public agencies in places including Australia, UK, Brazil, Jamaica, Denmark, Sweden, and Catalonia. Thomas’s academic background is in Electrical Engineering (communications) and Computer Science. His earlier professional work was in real-time distributed control (SCADA) systems for power, gas and mining; investment management and finance, and document and software configuration management systems. He has published a number of papers in health informatics and has presented widely on the patient-centric EHR, the model-based platform eco-system, and e-Health strategy. Thomas is VP Informatics at GraphiteHealth.
Pascal Biermann
Pascal Biermann
Pascal Biermann began his career at Leibniz University, where he developed simulation software for a doctoral researcher studying production processes in large workshops. He now works as a Reseacher for Big Data in Medicine and at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Combining technical versatility with practical problem-solving, Pascal supports reliable IT operations while contributing to digital development.
Diego Boscá Tomás
Diego Boscá Tomás
Diego is a computer engineer with a PhD from the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. His experience includes the analysis, design, implementation, and deployment of semantically interoperable healthcare information systems using international<br>electronic health record standards such as openEHR, HL7 FHIR, OMOP CDM, ISO13606, and HL7 CDA, and clinical terminology standards like SNOMED CT and ICD-10. He is a certified specialist in HL7 CDA, HL7 FHIR and SNOMED.
Fernando Campos
Fernando Campos
Experienced product manager and people leader with a value driven and strategic vision. Passionate by analyzing data and using it to answer fundamental questions that will unlock huge value for products through different tools (AI, machine learning, deep learning, …). A strong believer of flat organizations with a collaborative approach, where respectful but radical transparency is key to the development of people, teams and organizations.
Rong Chen MD, PhD
Rong Chen MD, PhD
Rong Chen, MD PhD, is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer and the head of Medical Informatics Group at Cambio Healthcare Systems, Sweden, where he is responsible for the research and development in clinical decision support and knowledge management. Rong holds a PhD degree in health informatics on the subject of EHR semantic interoperability from Linköping University, Sweden. He is an associated researcher at the Health Informatics Centre at Karolinska Institutet, where he lectures and supervises PhD and master students. Rong has contributed to several core openEHR design specifications, and has for many years led the Java Reference Implementation of openEHR. Rong is the lead author of Guideline Definition Language (GDL), which is designed to express clinical logic for scalable decision support with openEHR underpinning. Since May 2023 he is also a co-chair on the Specifications Editorial Committee (SEC).
Matt Cox
Matt Cox
Matt Cox is the Chief Customer Officer at Vitagroup and brings over 20 years of experience working with open standards in healthcare. Throughout his career, he has played a key role in some of the largest global implementations of openEHR, making him a prominent figure in the digital health community. Matt’s appointment to the openEHR International Board reflects his deep commitment to advancing data independence and vendor-neutral ecosystems in healthcare. As a representative of both Vitagroup and EHRbase, he brings a strong open-source perspective, practical implementation expertise, and a broad understanding of the business and operational challenges involved in adopting open standards. His presence on the board ensures a vital connection between openEHR’s mission and the real-world needs of health systems.
Dr. Juan Luis Cruz Bermúdez
Dr. Juan Luis Cruz Bermúdez
Dr Juan Luis Cruz Bermúdez is CIO of Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid, with over 17 years of experience driving digital transformation in healthcare. Previously CIO of Puerta de Hierro University Hospital for more than seven years, he has led major projects in EMR implementation, IT strategy, and digital health innovation. Holding a PhD in data analytics and clinical decision support in oncology, an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from UPM, and executive training from IESE, he combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership. Juan Luis is a member of CHIME and founder of the HIMSS Iberian Community, committed to advancing healthcare through innovation and technology.
e-Patient Dave deBronkart
e-Patient Dave deBronkart
A seasoned and highly sought-after public speaker on healthcare and health IT from a patient’s perspective, Dave received a standing ovation for his inspiring 2011 #TEDtalk - 'Let Patients Help'. Cancer survivor turned global healthcare analyst, Dave is also a renowned patient advocate who is passionate about disrupting healthcare systems by empowering patients to place themselves at the front and centre of their own healthcare journeys.
Sophie de Klerk
Sophie de Klerk
Jan de Lange
Jan de Lange
Jan de Lange is an experienced Senior Marketing Professional, specializing in the intersection of healthcare innovation and strategic marketing. He has a proven track record in driving successful international (digital) healthcare innovations and has created the Masterclass openEHR and Masterclass openEHR TOP Webinars. With expertise in strategic marketing, digital strategy, and market development, Jan excels in positioning new services within the Dutch and European healthcare markets. He is skilled in strategic planning, sales management, and coaching, with a particular focus on data availability and openEHR. His strong entrepreneurial mindset drives impactful results in the healthcare sector.
Giovanni Delussu
Giovanni Delussu
Giovanni Delussu is an Aeronautical Engineer who graduated from the Polytechnic of Turin in 1998 and holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics/Engineering from the University of Cagliari (2017). He is currently a researcher in the Digital Health group at CRS4. Throughout his career, Giovanni has worked in diverse fields, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational grid generation, hydrodynamics of boats, fluid dynamics of sails, combustion modeling, structural dynamic simulation of cardiac valves, the Rubbia Mars rocket project, concentrated solar power in renewable energy, and Big Data solutions. His current research interests focus on digital healthcare solutions, with a strong emphasis on standards and interoperability frameworks such as openEHR, FHIR, and OMOP CDM, as well as the application of FAIR principles. Since 2021, he has been a member of the BBMRI-ERIC CS-IT working group.
Dr Emmanuel Eschmann
Dr Emmanuel Eschmann
Dr Emmanuel Eschmann is a clinician informatician who combines his training and experience as both an informatician and as a former physician in his work. He has over 25 years' experience in the development and operation of electronic health records. He currently works as a software developer and clinical data modeller at CISTEC, a Swiss EHR vendor, where he is supporting the transition to an openEHR-based EHR system.
Angus Forth
Angus Forth
Angus Forth has a diverse work experience starting from his role as a Course Director at Teachpad in 2016 to his current position as the Head of Strategy and Analytics at Big Picture Medical since February 2023. In between, he worked at Quantium as a Data Scientist and later as an Associate Analyst, contributing his expertise in data analysis. Additionally, Angus gained valuable experience as an Intern at both Quantium and FOX SPORTS Australia, further developing his skills and knowledge.
Dr Lars Fuhrmann
Dr Lars Fuhrmann
Dr Lars Fuhrmann is a resident ophthalmologist with a strong interest in healthcare IT usability and interoperability, focusing on ophthalmology through FHIR and openEHR standards. He has experience in experimental app development and archetype drafting. Lars is actively involved with openEHR International and aims to become the interoperability coordinator for the German Ophthalmological Society. His goal is to advance standardised data models in ophthalmology, improving data exchange and clinical outcomes in his field.
Dr Sebastian Garde
Dr Sebastian Garde
Sebastian Garde is a Health Informatician, holding a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is also a Foundation Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. Currently serving as Product Lead at Ocean Health Systems, Sebastian is responsible for the Clinical Knowledge Manager (CKM). At Ocean, he has built on his research on the governance of clinical content models at CQUniversity Australia, culminating in the creation of the Clinical Knowledge Manager. He has been involved with openEHR since 2004. Before joining Ocean, Sebastian held various positions in academia. He worked as a Research Fellow in Health Informatics at CQUniversity Australia and as a Research Associate at Austin Health, Melbourne, one of Australia's largest hospitals. Earlier in his career, Sebastian was a scientific employee in the field of Medical Informatics at the Heidelberg University Medical Centre, Germany.
Dr Bernhard Geist
Dr Bernhard Geist
Bernhard Geist is an accomplished executive with extensive leadership experience as both CEO and Managing Director. He has a proven record of delivering sustainable and consistent results while building new organisations and business areas. His international background includes leading complex change-management projects and working successfully with investors in founding and selling companies. Bernhard’s expertise spans Cloud Services, Enterprise ICT Services, Unified Communications, Enterprise Voice, and Infrastructure and Operations. A recognised authority in global rollouts and user adoption initiatives, he is an effective communicator across all levels—from CxOs to technical experts. Known for his strategic thinking and hands-on approach, he specialises in developing high-performance teams that drive lasting business success.
Tomaž Gornik
Tomaž Gornik
Tomaž is the CEO of Better and an experienced leader of a large group of developers building world-class software products for more than 30 years. He is always challenging his team to build better software using state-of-the-art technology, architectures and processes. He has a deep understanding of software platforms, architecture, deployment and business models. Tomaž has a proven track record delivering innovative turn-key solutions for large clients in telecommunications, finance and healthcare. He has been speaker at conferences including TeleManagement Forum, HIMSS and Health 2.0.
Martin Grundberg
Martin Grundberg
Tomaž is the CEO of Better and an experienced leader of a large group of developers building world-class software products for more than 30 years. He is always challenging his team to build better software using state-of-the-art technology, architectures and processes. He has a deep understanding of software platforms, architecture, deployment and business models. Tomaž has a proven track record delivering innovative turn-key solutions for large clients in telecommunications, finance and healthcare. He has been speaker at conferences including TeleManagement Forum, HIMSS and Health 2.0.
Nicola Hall
Nicola Hall
Nicola Hall is a Consultant Epidemiologist supporting the Ministry of Health and Wellness in Jamaica through the development of an Electronic Surveillance System. Since 2019, she has engaged local experts in clinical modelling using openEHR templates to enhance digital and paper-based data collection tools. Nicola’s experience with health information systems has revealed the critical need for interoperable, accessible patient data. The openEHR Fellowship will expand her practical knowledge and connect her with a global expert community. Passionate about population health research and policy impact, she aims to strengthen health systems and improve public health planning through advanced digital health solutions.sity Medical Centre, Germany.
Dr Sam Heard
Dr Sam Heard
Sam Heard is a practicing clinician who has worked throughout his career in inner London (UK) and the Northern Territory (Australia) to assist the standardisation of health information to empower clinicians and their patients to improve health care and outcomes. This work began with the Good European Health Record in the early 90s, continued through a long collaboration with Thomas Beale and CHIME at UCL, the establishment of Ocean Informatics as a commercial vehicle to assist in the vision and culminating in setting up the openEHR Foundation in London in 2002. Sam was appointed as Chair of the openEHR Foundation Board in June 2023, where he has served as a Director for many years. He was CEO until 2012 and now a current board Chair of Ocean Health Systems. Sam was a foundation co-Chair of the HL7 EHR Technical Committee and has worked extensively with the UK and Australian national programs to utilise and refine the openEHR method.
Hendrik Heiser
Hendrik Heiser
Hendrik Heiser is dedicated to making clinical data more accessible for hospitals, patients, and research. He advocates for open-source standards and frameworks to overcome the limitations of proprietary data models, enabling data-driven care, patient empowerment, and more efficient clinical research. With a PhD focused on 2-photon microscopy, Hendrik studied hippocampal circuit formation and adaptation in vascular dementia, while also building a collaborative MySQL-based research data management system and computational pipeline using DataJoint. His expertise bridges neuroscience, health data management, and interoperability, with a vision of unlocking clinical data for innovation and better care.
Nils Hellrung
Nils Hellrung
As Managing Director of vitagroup, Dr. Nils Hellrung plays a pivotal role in guiding the Health Intelligence Platform Division, focusing on innovative healthcare solutions and the critical importance of structured, high-quality data and interoperability.
Dr Amanda Herbrand
Dr Amanda Herbrand
Dr Amanda Herbrand is a physician and researcher working at the intersection of clinical practice, data science and digital health. With a background in physics and medicine, she brings a systems-thinking approach to healthcare innovation. Amanda focuses on designing patient-centred digital solutions that support sustainable clinical data capture and workflow integration. She advocates for openEHR and the separation of frontend and data logic to enable interoperability and long-term data value. Her research includes work on off-label drug use in oncology and the alignment of reimbursement with evidence. Amanda has also contributed to software development and R&D projects focused on clinical workflows and data architecture
Dr Joost Holslag
Dr Joost Holslag
Joost Holslag is a physician and health IT specialist dedicated to improving healthcare through smarter use of information. As Medical Information Officer at RSO Zuid-Limburg and founder of Joost Holslag Geneeskunde & Advies, he bridges the gap between clinical practice and technology. With experience in software development, Joost focuses on clinical data modelling using openEHR and related standards to enable data reuse, as well as designing intuitive medical user interfaces. Passionate about complex systems, he works on aligning digital and physical healthcare processes to foster better collaboration and patient outcomes.
Sebastian Iancu
Sebastian Iancu
In his early professional years, Sebastian developed complex web-based applications for the healthcare sector in Romania and later on in The Netherlands. His main interests were data interoperability, telemedicine and knowledge-based systems. After receiving an Engineering degree in Automation and Computer Science, Sebastian focused on developing a completely new PHP-based implementation of openEHR specifications. In 2010, he became one of the three founders of Code24 BV, and has since been the lead software engineer within this company. Currently, Code24 BV provides openEHR based IT solutions (Base24, mConsole) for more than 100,000 patients and their care providers in the mental healthcare sector in The Netherlands. Since May 2020 he is also a co-chair on the Specifications Editorial Committee (SEC).
Loes Jaspers
Loes Jaspers
Loes Jaspers is an independent Public Health Physician and epidemiologist with a passion for connection and societal impact. She thrives on translating complex public health challenges into practical, evidence-based solutions that work in the real world. Her expertise covers infectious disease control, travel medicine, sexual and reproductive health, epidemiology, and crisis preparedness and response. As a clinical trainer, she guides and mentors the next generation of public health physicians in infectious disease control
Maksymilian Kasprzyk
Maksymilian Kasprzyk
Maksymilian Kasprzyk is the Co-Founder and COO of Anamedi, a Basel-based healthtech startup building AI-powered solutions for healthcare. He is currently a student at the University of Basel, with a background in Business and Economics.
Sofia Kauppila MNSc
Sofia Kauppila MNSc
Sofia Kauppila (MNSc) is a healthcare leader with an international background as a midwife and nurse, bringing over a decade of experience in clinical practice, digital health, and strategic business development. At Tietoevry Care, she shapes the direction of clinical solutions across Europe, working on go-to-market strategies, portfolio development and international partnerships. Specializing in open standards such as openEHR, Sofia drives the creation of modular, scalable applications that meet diverse healthcare system needs while improving usability and care outcomes. Her career spans roles in product management, portfolio leadership, and consulting, with expertise in heath economics, academic research, public procurements and large-scale digital transformation projects.
Julian Kempf
Julian Kempf
Julian Kempf is a healthcare technologist with a background in Business & Technology and a focus on applied machine learning. He is the co-founder of Anamedi, where he develops Voice AI tools that support clinicians in their daily routines and allow them to focus more on patient care. His work brings together speech recognition, structured data standards, and clinical workflow design, with a particular emphasis on Swiss German and openEHR integration in Swiss hospitals and general practice.
Severin Kohler
Severin Kohler
Severin Kohler is a health informatician shaping industry standards. Currently, he serves as a Member of the Specification Board at openEHR International, where he plays a key role in driving advancements in healthcare informatics. His work involves actively participating in various medical informatics projects, including significant contributions to initiatives like HiGHmed and the NUM project.
Bouwe Koopal
Bouwe Koopal
Bouwe Koopal is a strategic ICT consultant and change leader with deep experience in innovation, transformation, and organisational design. Known for his creative drive and conceptual thinking, Bouwe helps organisations navigate rapid change by aligning technology, people and processes. He brings strong capabilities in interim and programme management, sales process optimisation, and professional coaching. His approach blends entrepreneurship with hands-on innovation management to deliver sustainable impact. With a firm belief that strategic ICT knowledge is essential for any organisation’s future, Bouwe supports clients in reshaping their structures and strategies to remain competitive in an evolving digital landscape.
Dr Heather Leslie
Dr Heather Leslie
Heather is an experienced clinician informatician with a long history of involvement in international digital health standards. Her primary focus for many years has been on developing high-quality ‘little data’ to establish a coherent health data ecosystem. She has extensive expertise in clinical information modelling, clinical knowledge governance, data quality and safety, and engagement with clinicians and domain experts. As principal of Atomica Informatics (2018- ) her everyday work is involves data standardisation in international and national eHealth programs, including supporting logical model development for Australia’s Sparked FHIR accelerator. Heather was a leader of the openEHR Clinical Modelling program from 2008 to 2021 and administrator of the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager until 2023. Heather is now openEHR’s Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO).
Sjors Liebregts
Sjors Liebregts
Heather is an experienced clinician informatician with a long history of involvement in international digital health standards. Her primary focus for many years has been on developing high-quality ‘little data’ to establish a coherent health data ecosystem. She has extensive expertise in clinical information modelling, clinical knowledge governance, data quality and safety, and engagement with clinicians and domain experts. As principal of Atomica Informatics (2018- ) her everyday work is involves data standardisation in international and national eHealth programs, including supporting logical model development for Australia’s Sparked FHIR accelerator. Heather was a leader of the openEHR Clinical Modelling program from 2008 to 2021 and administrator of the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager until 2023. Heather is now openEHR’s Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO).
Cecilia Mascia
Cecilia Mascia
Cecilia Mascia is a biomedical engineer specialising in clinical data modelling and interoperability. She earned her master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin in 2013, with a thesis evaluating a telemedicine system developed at the CRS4 Digital Health group. Since joining the group in 2014, she has worked extensively with international standards, particularly openEHR and HL7 CDA, to enable seamless EHR integration. Her experience includes process analysis and re-engineering in hospital drug supply chains, as well as contributions to genomic data modelling for the openEHR consortium. Currently, she collaborates with BBMRI-ERIC to develop a provenance information model for the biotechnology domain (ISO TC 276).
Dr Ian McNicoll
Dr Ian McNicoll
Ian is a former Scottish GP, and has been involved in healthcare informatics for nearly 30 years, working with and promoting openEHR technologies for the last 8 years, initially with Ocean Informatics and latterly as an independent consultant. His current focus is on the promotion of the Apperta open e-health platform ecosystem, with openEHR at its core, and the development of a related Development Platform, adopted by NHS England as a key part of their Code4Health initiative. A Director of the openEHR Foundation Board. Previous Chair of the openEHR Management Board, and Director of the International Board from March 2019 until November 2022.
William Mensen, MSc
William Mensen, MSc
William Mensen, MSc, has twelve years of experience as a technologist in medical imaging and radiotherapy. Since 2022, he has been a lecturer in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy programme at Hanze University of Applied Sciences. Alongside his teaching, he works as a researcher in the Digital Transformation research group. He draws on both his clinical and technical expertise to support clinical modelling in openEHR.
Dr Xabier Michelena Vegas
Dr Xabier Michelena Vegas
Dr Xabier Michelena Vegas is a rheumatologist (MD, PhD) and Clinical Informatics Lead of the Digital Health Strategy at CatSalut. He began working with openEHR in 2022 at Vall d’Hebron Hospital, where he led innovation projects and piloted openEHR for primary use registries. He also deployed an EHRbase instance and explored ETL strategies in alignment with OMOP standards. Since joining CatSalut, he has worked closely with an expert clinical modelling team to advance interoperable digital health systems. Xabier is now focused on establishing a unified, consensus-driven approach to EHR structuring and care process orchestration across healthcare networks.
David Moner, PhD
David Moner, PhD
David Moner is a Computer Engineer and PhD at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is currently CTO and consultant on semantic interoperability and eHealth standards at openEHR Industry Partner VeraTech for Health. Previously, David worked as a full-time researcher in health information systems and EHR standards in UPV. Since 2005, David has focused on the practical application of health information standards and terminologies such as openEHR, ISO 13606, HL7 CDA, HL7 FHIR, CDISC ODM, SNOMED CT or LOINC. He has participated in more than 30 research and applied projects, and has more than 50 publications in this field, including his PhD thesis titled “Archetype development and governance methodologies for the electronic health record”. In the education area, David has given academic training about semantic interoperability and EHR standards in the Master of Biomedical Engineering of the UPV, in the Master of Medical Informatics of the University of Alcalá de Henares, and as part of medical informatics courses in the Computer Engineering degree of the UPV. He has also provided on-demand professional training in ISO 13606, openEHR, HL7 CDA, HL7 FHIR and SNOMED CT, having trained over 500 clinical and technical professionals in the use of these standards.
Benjamin Muhič
Benjamin Muhič
Benjamin Muhič is the Studio Product Director at Better, where he shapes the vision and direction of Better Studio, low-code tools built on openEHR to accelerate digital healthcare transformation. With a foundation in software engineering, he bridges technical expertise with product strategy, ensuring that solutions are not only scalable and interoperable, but also intuitive for care teams to use. His work reflects a deep belief that healthcare technology should empower professionals, streamline workflows, and safeguard patient data as a lifelong, vendor-neutral asset.
Victor Okrobodo
Victor Okrobodo
A passionate advocate for technology in healthcare and driver of innovative solutions in healthcare technology, Victor works for EHA Clinics, a premier primary healthcare provider in Nigeria which has successfully implemented a digital transformation utilising the Better Care Platform and openEHR standards, substantially improving the quality of care, streamlining workflows and enhancing medical record quality. Distinguished for its outstanding customer service and innovative data-driven solutions, and the first and only JCI and ISO-accredited primary care provider in Sub-Saharan Africa, EHA Clinics is internationally recognised for its clinical and community research and delivery of high-quality, affordable primary healthcare to underserved urban communities.
Dr David Pao
Dr David Pao
Dr David Pao is a doctor and design researcher focused on transforming the clinical experience of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). His PhD research explores how to realign EHR interfaces with the way clinicians think, using user-centred design principles often absent from current systems. Drawing on Participatory Action Research, David works closely with clinical communities to co-create practical, accessible knowledge that leads to meaningful change. His work addresses the marginalisation of clinicians in EHR design by embedding their cognitive patterns into interface development. His methods include reflective prototyping, diffractive mixed methods evaluation, heuristic development, and epistemic visualisation - tools that ground his approach in both rigour and real-world impact.
Jovan Pavićević
Jovan Pavićević
Jovan Pavićević is a seasoned business leader with 15 years of experience across banking, telecom, energy, and, most passionately, healthcare. For more than five years, he has focused on international B2B marketing, sales, and product development in healthcare, driven by a commitment to improving lives through technology. His diverse career has sharpened his adaptability, cross-cultural perspective, and ability to challenge convention while building meaningful collaborations worldwide. Jovan brings experience from both corporate and family business settings, valuing culture, mentorship, and continuous learning. A mentor, mentee, and lifelong explorer of new ideas, he thrives on pushing boundaries and shaping healthcare’s digital future.
Dr Jordi Piera Jiménez
Dr Jordi Piera Jiménez
Jordi, BSc, MSc, PhD is dually trained in Computing Science Engineering (BSc) and in Business Management (BSc) by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Further to that, he also holds a MSc in Telemedicine and E-health delivered by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and a PhD on the economic evaluation of digital health innovations under the Information and Knowledge Society doctoral programme also from UOC. He started working at the service provision in an integrated care organization back in year 2000, first as an analyst and software developer inside the Information Technologies Department where he actively participated in the development and implementation of the Electronic Medical and Social Care Records and in a number of research and innovation projects. After many years at the service provision side, Jordi moved to the Catalan Health Service where he is currently leading the Digital Health Strategy Office and the development of a new Electronic Health Record which will be built around the paradigm of open platforms and standards.
Dr John Powderly
Dr John Powderly
Dr. John D. Powderly is an oncologist in Huntersville, North Carolina. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Dr Sidharth Ramesh
Dr Sidharth Ramesh
A doctor by training, but a developer at heart. Founded Medblocks in 2015, and currently serving customers all around the world to deliver better healthcare. Believes that providing data-driven clinical decisions can save more lives than doctors can, by themselves. Medblocks provides an open-source library for building openEHR interfaces – Medblocks UI. Also providing opinionated open-source backend services for building your openEHR + FHIR-based applications quickly – Medblocks Stack. Providing consulting services for: Setting up openEHR server – Cloud/on-premise, openEHR Clinical Modelling and Template Designing, Building openEHR based applications and forms from openEHR templates, Integrating and helping with Medblocks UI into your existing frontend application, Dashboards and analytics using AQL on openEHR repositories, Setting up SNOMED CT server – Cloud/on-premise, SNOMED CT mapping and Reference set creation, Setting up an FHIR server – Cloud/on-premise, Building and deploying SMART on FHIR applications, FHIR Profiling and clinical modelling.
Alina Rehberg
Alina Rehberg
Alina Rehberg works as a Researcher at Hannover Medical School and as Co-Leader of the German openEHR Modeling Group, specializing in data interoperability in healthcare. She focuses on clinical data modeling and data integration, contributing to the development of reliable digital solutions that enhance structured data entry and improve healthcare processes.
Dirk Rossbach
Dirk Rossbach
With roots in software development, Dirk found his passion in building bridges between data, research, and care. In product management at HiGHmed, he works on clinical data solutions that make a real difference for all of us. "My heart beats for making health data truly usable — for better research, smart care, more reliable data, and fewer Excel spreadsheets in healthcare."
Dr Remko Schats
Dr Remko Schats
Remko Schats is an accomplished medical professional with a diverse academic background, having recently completed his Executive MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management. Prior to this achievement as a medical doctor, he earned a PhD from the University of Leiden for his groundbreaking research on malaria vaccines.
Pablo Serrano Balazote
Pablo Serrano Balazote
Pablo Serrano is Healthcare Director at Cantabria Regional Health Service. He has held management positions in hospitals and does research on electronic health records and interoperability. He has participated in national and European projects on the representation of health information and its use in care and research. His group is currently working on the use of health data for multiple purposes, such as value-based care, personalized medicine, artificial intelligence, evidence generation, and epidemiological surveillance.
Muhammad Shoaib
Muhammad Shoaib
Muhammad Shoaib is a Health Data Expert Architect at NTT Luxembourg PSF, with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science. Formerly a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg, he contributed to multiple EU Horizon projects, advancing healthcare research and innovation. His expertise spans health data analysis, modeling, ontology development, and disease mapping, underpinned by the application of FAIR data principles and Agile methodologies. Skilled in project management, data stewardship, and governance, Muhammad has led multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-impact outcomes. His background also includes teaching, science communication, and event management, reflecting his versatility and collaborative approach.
Åsa Skagerhult
Åsa Skagerhult
Åsa Skagerhult is a Business Architect at Region Östergötland, specialising in information-driven development of healthcare services. With expertise in health informatics, she works to align clinical needs, data structures, and organisational strategy, ensuring that healthcare delivery is supported by robust, sustainable information management. Based in Linköping, Åsa operates in a hybrid environment, bridging the gap between technical teams and healthcare professionals to enable more effective, data-informed care.
Erik Sundvall, PhD, MSc
Erik Sundvall, PhD, MSc
Erik Sundvall has an MSc in Information Technology, and PhD in Medical informatics from Linköping University, Sweden. Recent activities focus on trying to tie things together via implementation of an openEHR based educational EHR system (LiU EEE) enabling reusable patient overview system at the same time as it is a test platform for a scalable REST based openEHR component/service design that aims to make it easier to deploy openEHR based systems by putting together components from different projects/vendors/platforms. Erik has also supervised several student projects and MSc theses, e.g. one leading to the first openEHR Archetype editor in Java.
Cindy Throop, MSW
Cindy Throop, MSW
Cindy Throop is a senior strategic consultant focused on the intersection of health and social policy and technology implementation. In her current role with the US Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control, she leads public health data interoperability strategy for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Administration. From 2019 to 2022, she led quality and data initiatives on a $120M healthcare transformation project for the CMS Innovation Center, shaping how clinical quality, patient experience and utilisation data inform leadership decisions. More recently, Cindy supported the implementation of the first scalable patient consent management platform in the US based on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards. A macro social worker and policy expert, she bridges diverse stakeholder perspectives to help policy makers, government agencies, and technology companies prepare for and successfully implement meaningful change.
Martin van der Meer
Martin van der Meer
Martin van der Meer is Manager of Business Development and Co-Owner / Co-Founder of CODE24, the first Dutch healthcare IT company to fully embrace openEHR, its Demographics Specifications and the separation of data and applications (back in 2010!). Having worked at a Dutch hospital for many years himself, he developed a keen sense and a passion for the strategic and technical changes necessary to realise true semantic interoperability. He founded CODE24 with Alessandro Torrisi and Sebastian Iancu and together with their team they developed a broad range of EHR-based solutions. With CareBase24, they also provide a robust data foundation for any healthcare application – based on openEHR, of course.
Poornachandra Vivekananda
Poornachandra Vivekananda
Poornachandra Vivekananda is Co-founder and Head of Operations at Medblocks, where he leads Product and Growth while shaping the future of healthcare interoperability. A medical graduate with a passion for technology, he works to bridge medicine and digital innovation, aiming to make patient care more accessible and equitable. Before Medblocks, he founded and ran a successful web consultancy, gaining hands-on expertise across AWS, NextJS, and Kubernetes. With this blend of medical insight and technical depth, Poornachandra is committed to driving meaningful change in digital health.