HL7 UK Contributions in HL7.org

HL7 UK is an affiliate organisation to HL7. HL7 UK currently have several members actively involved in HL7 leadership positions. A respectable contingent of UK members also regularly attend the Working Group Meetings, where the Technical Committees and Special Interest Groups meet.

HL7 UK Members with leadership positions in HL7.org.

About my role

Melvin Reynolds
Health Care Devices Co-Chair
Term Expires: Jan 2010

Melvin Reynolds was appointed Co-Chair of the Healthcare Devices (DEV) Working Group (WG)  in the new 'Expert' domain. In practical terms this appointment is simply a regularisation of the existing situation where he and Todd Cooper (the other active Co-Chair) organised the meetings which have been since the inception of the group held jointly with ISO TC215 WG7 and IEEE11073.

Clive Flashman
Patient Safety SIG Co-chair
Term Expires: Jan 2009

Until August 2007, Clive was the Head of the National Reporting and Learning System at the National Patient Safety Agency, a Special Health Authority within the NHS. This system has been set up to allow any member of NHS staff to report when they believe a patient has been unintentionally harmed, whether that is a clinical or non-clinical incident, an act of commission or ommission.

Regulators are well represented in the Patient safety SIG (PSSIG), but the NPSA brings a different (learning) perspective to the arena of patient safety, and this has helped to bring balance to the agenda and discussions at the SIG.

As co-chair, I was more able to assist in the development of a messaging standard for reports of patient safety incidents that can be made to entities (other than regulators) and this now links well to my role at CSC where I am one of the leaders of the new Healthcare practice.

Personally, I enjoy the networking with my health informatics peers, and I always learn something new at every meeting I go to. I've also made some very good friends who I would otherwise not have met.