Thomas Beale (principal)

Experience

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

Creator of

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

Architect of (with many esteemed colleagues)

• The openEHR Reference Model;
• Asciidoctor-based documentation toolchain used in openEHR specifications.

Articles and publications

• 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.