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			<h3 id="thomas_beale">Thomas Beale FBCS CITP (United Kingdom)</h3>
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				<p>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.</p>
				<p>After participating in the GEHR project in 1994 with Prof David Ingram's team at CHIME, UCL (UK), he worked since 1998 on EHR architectures, and participated in international standards work (OMG HDTF, HL7, CEN TC/251) for many years. He is one of the founders of the openEHR Foundation, and principal editor of <a href="http://www.openehr.org/programs/specification/releases/currentbaseline">the specifications</a>. He designed the archetype formalism (<a href="http://www.openehr.org/releases/trunk/architecture/am/adl2.pdf">ADL</a>) and object model (<a href="http://www.openehr.org/releases/trunk/architecture/am/aom2.pdf">AOM</a>), now an <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50119">ISO standard</a>. He ran the Architecture Review Board 2005 - 2008.</p>
				<p>He has published a number of <a href="http://wolandscat.net/publications/">papers in health informatics</a> and has also presented widely on EHRs, e-Health and archetypes.</p>
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