Ian Mcnicoll
Director at SCIMP
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Mcnicoll is a director and health informatics specialist with over 30 years of combined frontline clinical and digital health experience and a decade formally in informatics roles. A former GP with an MSc in Health Informatics, he consults and leads clinically‑led EHR design and information modelling through his company freshEHR and leadership roles at openEHR International. He brings deep technical expertise in archetype-based modelling (openEHR, ISO13606, CIMI) and clinical terminologies (SNOMED CT, dm+d, ICD, LOINC), translating messy real‑world clinical workflows into robust standards and implementations. Ian is notable for bridging hands-on clinical practice with standards governance—co-editing the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager and advising national primary care IT programmes—so his work influences both product delivery and broader policy. Based in Lancaster, he combines practical software development roots with sustained contributions to open, interoperable health data ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
McChB Medicine, McChB Medicine at University of AberdeenMSc Health Informatics, MSc Health Informatics at University of Bath
French
Github Skills (2)
openehr7
tooling6
Github contributions (5)
freshehr/openehr_tool_docs
Dec 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 21 pushes in 2 years 6 months
modellingopenehrclinicaltooling
freshehrteam/GEL
Dec 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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