Executive body

President: Georges DE MOOR

E-mail: georges.demoor@ugent.be

Professor Dr. Georges J.E. De Moor studied Medicine and specialised in Clinical Pathology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of Ghent (Belgium), where he also obtained his PhD in Medical Information Science. He is head of the Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics at the State University of Ghent, Belgium, where he teaches Health Informatics, Medical Statistics, Decision Theory and Evidence Based Medicine.

As president of RAMIT (Research in Advanced Medical Informatics and Telematics), he has been involved in both European and International Research and Development projects (+85), as well as in Standardisation activities. For seven years, Prof. De Moor acted as Founding Chairman of CEN/TC251, the official Technical Committee on standardisation in health informatics in Europe. Prof. De Moor has also founded a number of companies of which he is chairman or C.E.O. (e.g. MediBridge, Custodix, TeleTendo…). In 2004, he was elected President of the European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec). In Belgium, Prof. De Moor chairs a number of official Committees, among which the Health Telematics Committee of the Belgian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, as well as a number of scientific and professional organisations.

Dr. De Moor is also head of the Clinical Pathology Laboratory of the St-Elisabeth Hospital in Zottegem.

He has edited seven books related to ICT in Health and published over 200 articles in scientific journals.

Secretary General : Gerard HURL

E-mail: Gerard.hurl@hse.ie

MA, FBCS CITP, Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland

National Director of ICT, Health Services Executive, the national organisation responsible for providing Health and Personal Social Services in the Republic of Ireland.

Chairman of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland and Vice Chairman of ProRec Ireland, Vice Chairman of the Irish Forum for Health Informatics and Secretary General of the EuroRec Institute. Founder member of the HealthCare Informatics Standards Committee of the National Standards Authority of Ireland and Irish representative on the council of the European Medical Informatics Federation (EFMI)

Lecturer in Healthcare Informatics: Institute of Public Administration, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin.

1996 - Overall Winner - Irish Computer Professional of the Year.

Vice-Chairman: John O'BRIEN

E-mail: jpobrien51@gmail.com

John is on secondment from his post of Chief Executive at St. James’s Hospital, the largest Academic Teaching Hospital in Ireland as Adviser to the CEO of the HSE on strategic issues, pertaining mainly to Hospitals. He has extensive experience in Health and Hospital Management both Nationally and Internationally covering some 30 years. John has led and executed a large range of special interest initiatives in the Health Sector covering areas such as Information Systems, Strategy Planning, Commissioning of major health Enterprises, Corporate Governance and Executive systems design and large scale organisation reconfiguration and change. He has also participated as a member of a number of Ministerial/Department of Health & Children sponsored review groups including Steering Panels for the Value for Money Review of the Health System (Deloitte & Touche) and more recently the Audit of Structures and Functions in the Health System (Prospectus), which report formed the basis for the Major Reform Programme at present in implementation in the Irish Health System.

John holds graduate qualifications in Economics, Political Science and Health Management and a Masters degree in Public Administration. He also holds a Senior Lecturer position in Health Policy and Management with the University of Dublin, Trinity College. John is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and a member of the Irish Statistical and Social Enquiry Society.

In the area of quality, John has acted as Project Director of the National initiative established to develop an Accreditation Scheme for the Irish Health System. Up to 2004, he held the position of Transitional Executive Head of the Irish Health Services Accreditation Board (IHSAB), the Statutory Body established to, inter alia, administer this scheme. He was appointed Surveyor as part of the first wave initiative in this area in 2000 and has led surveys in Major Academic and large group Hospitals both in and outwith Ireland (including Canada, South East Asia, Australia etc.). He has also devised and overseen implementation of an extensive quality programme at St. James’s Hospital in recent years.

Treasurer: Jos DEVLIES

E-mail: jos.devlies@eurorec.org

José is a Medical Doctor by training, specialised in Family Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven (1969) and in Occupational Healthcare at the University of Ghent (1972). He has also a degree in the Management of Healthcare Data (2003).

Practising General Practitioner, full time for over 30 years, and working for several years part-time in Occupational Healthcare, especially in the public sector, he started to be an entrepreneur. He has founded and chaired several companies, among which:

• Medizorg C.V. , a co-operative medical society founded in 1980, with now 62 members and an annual turnover of over 15 million €
• Datasoft Management N.V., founded in 1987, merged in 2002 into OmegaSoft, the largest provider of health information systems in Belgium, where he was responsible for business development, medical research and medical quality management

He was also co-founder and Member of the Board of MediBRIDGE N.V.

He joined in 2006 the team of Professor Georges De Moor (University of Ghent) to be the medical director, addressing more specifically clinical aspects in eHealth research and development.

José is Member of the Board of the Belgian Scientific Society for Medical Informatics (M.I.M.), a member of Prorec Belgium vzw and an early member of EuroRec, co-organising the first EuroRec Annual Meeting in Paris in 1997. He is co-author of the Belgian certification criteria for GP EHR systems.

He has always been very active in the context of the Health Telematics European Programmes and has been a member of the EU 5th Framework Healthcare Telematics Requirements Board (DGXIII). He has also participated in several National and EU co-funded projects. Just some of them: Euclides, Patiënt en Dossier, Intranet Health Clinic, PharmDIS, eMed, C-Care, Share, eProLearn, PharmDIS-e+ and C³, coordinating some of them. He is actually actively involved in ePrescript and LiverDoc as well as in RIDE and Q-REC. He was generally involved in the product specification, product design, validation and business development with a special interest for the clinical aspects of those projects.

He was a member of CEN/TC251 Working Group 1 and 2, participated in several standardisation projects e.g. on “Continuity of Care” and chaired the project team on the identification of medicinal products (ENV12610).

Organisation Portfolio: Leo CIGLENECKI

E-mail: leo.ciglenecki@siol.net

Leo Ciglenecki has over twenty years of active involvement in the informatics projects, with the last fourteen years in the sector of health informatics. He has worked with several reputable IT companies in Slovenia and in Europe, as well as participated in the projects sponsored by the World Bank and EC (Widenet, Q-Rec, EHR-Implement). His recent activities included projects with the Capacity building project of the Health Insurance Fond in Serbia; the National EHR project in Serbia; Ministry of Health of Slovenia as a part of the national Health Sector Reform; the national Health Insurance Card project with the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia etc.

He is a founder and the director of the consulting company LCI Information Engineering and of the Slovenian Prorec.SI Institution.

Services Portfolio: Gerard FRERIKS

E-mail: g.freriks@e-RecordCompany.eu

Gerard Freriks was trained as MD and worked 20 years as General Practitioner.

Since 1969 involved in informatics. In 1980 he was part of the team that definedof the first GP application in the Netherlands.

Activities in standardisation started in 1996. In 1999 became the chairman of CEN/tc251 wg1, responsible for among others the European EN13606 EHRcom and EN12967 Health Information Systems Architecture standards. He started harmonisation between CEN and HL7. For the Dutch standardisation organisation he was co-author of the Dutch Information for Healthcare standard. Since 2007 he is director-owner of ERC (distributor of Ocean Informatics software) and director-owner of ERS (marketing an Integrated Care EHR).

Work for ProRec the Netherlands started in 1996 in the EU project Pro-Rec, later followed by EU projects WideNet and Q-EHR, EHR-Q TN. He is member of the Dutch Board of ProRec the Netherlands.

His expertise is in: semantic interoperability, EHR related standards, quality of IT in healthcare, Archetype (DCM) modeling, IT for healthcare strategies.

Projects Portfolio: Dipak KALRA

E-mail: d.kalra@chime.ucl.ac.uk

Dipak Kalra is a clinical senior lecturer at CHIME (UCL). He plays a leading international role in research and development of electronic health record architectures and systems. His interests include the requirements and models needed to ensure the robust long-term preservation of clinical meaning and protection of privacy. He leads CEN and ISO Task Forces producing an international EHR Communications standard. He is involved in a UK Medical Research Council e-Science project, CLEF, developing a pseudonymised repository of cancer records and query tools to support bio-informatics research. Dipak is a Director of the openEHR Foundation, chairman of its Clinical Review Board and a member of its Architecture Review Board.

He was previously a GP for eight years in a deprived part of London.

Stakeholder Relationships Portfolio: Christopher NOLAN

E-mail: cnolan87@eircom.net

Chris Nolan has more than 35 years of experience in health IT, including nine years with the Irish Government Health Service and five years with the UK NHS. He has also worked on projects with large multinational Health IT companies globally. In his current position as Director of the Institute of Health Care Informatics in Ireland, Chris Nolan has worked on acute care hospital information systems, laboratories, pharmacy, radiology and imaging, as well as all other departments including finance and administration.

His past and current positions also include Director of Healthcare Informatics Training Services Ltd. in Ireland, founder member of the HealthCare Informatics Society of Ireland and the Healthcare Informatics Standards Committee of the National Standards Authority of Ireland, board member of the EuroRec Institute and joint owner of a nursing home, residential home and community care organisation. He also works on a number of European Community projects covering the Electronic Health Record.

Nolan’s credentials include: Fellow Irish Computer Society, Fellow Institute for Management Information Systems, Charted IT Professional Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow Institute of Directors and Fellow Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland.