Summary
Heath Frankel is a Health Information Exchange Consultant with two decades of experience designing and integrating digital health systems, specialising in openEHR repositories, clinical archetypes, HL7 messaging and FHIR APIs. He has led architecture and development of the first jurisdictional-scale openEHR clinical and demographic repositories and helped operationalise shared records, infection control and integrated care planning in production health systems. A long-time contributor to standards, Heath co-authored the openEHR Archetype Query Language, conceived the Template Data Schema approach, served on the openEHR Specification Editorial Committee and represented Australian interests at HL7 international meetings. He combines hands-on technical leadership with government-facing consulting across Commonwealth, state and territory health departments, and now applies that experience as a freelance consultant and advisor. Based in Adelaide, he pairs deep standards expertise with practical delivery experience that helps projects move from specification to interoperable, citizen-facing solutions.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer