Thomas Beale (principal)

Experience

25 years' experience in EHR technology and standards, information modelling, semantic interoperability, e-health strategy and open health computing platforms.

Creator

• The Archetype Definition Language (ADL), now an ISO standard
• The Basic-Meta Model (BMM) alternative to XMI, used in openEHR, HL7 CIMI
• The ADL Workbench

Principal Architect

• The openEHR Task Planning Specification
• The openEHR Reference Model
• Asciidoctor-based documentation toolchain used in openEHR specifications

Articles and publications

• Computable guidelines, clinical workflow, decision support
• FHIR Compared to openEHR
• Initial Foundations for Clinical Workflow
• What is an open platform?
• The crisis in e-health standards
• The crisis in e-health standards
• Publications page

History

Knowledge-based standards development, software engineering, education, business development, industry analysis and thought leadership since 1986, including in real time control, finance, and e-health. Lead of openEHR.org Specification Program.

Thomas's early experience was in CMM level 4 engineering of real-time control systems. He also worked in some of the largest financial enterprises in Australia, in both a strategic advisory capacity and on project implementation. He has worked in e-health since 1994, when he was the technical advisor for the Good European Health Record (GEHR) project.

Since 1998, he has been involved in international e-health standards development (OMG, HL7, CEN, IHTSDO), including as an IHTSDO Technical Committee member 2009-2012. He has worked on the openEHR architecture since 2001.

He has also consulted for the US Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA), Intermountain Healthcare, and various Ministries and Departments of Health, including in Australia, UK, and Brazil.