Richard Kavanagh
Head Of Technology UK&I at Better
Knaresborough, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Kavanagh is a healthcare technology leader with nearly three decades of experience and nine years in senior engineering and data roles, now serving as Head of Technology UK&I at Better. He specialises in architecting cross-border healthcare data platforms, driving FHIR-based interoperability, SNOMED semantic alignment, and cloud-native data platforms that enable seamless patient care. A long-time contributor to standards bodies (HL7-UK, openEHR, NHS Digital) and multiple boards, he blends hands-on data architecture with product leadership to turn clinical standards into production APIs and canonical data models. Notably, he has led national API initiatives, open-source reference implementations and terminology server adoption, demonstrating a rare mix of standards governance and delivery at scale. Based in Knaresborough, he combines an engineering background (BEng, Leeds) with pragmatic experience in both public-sector NHS programmes and commercial healthcare platforms.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BEng(Hons) Electrical & Electronic Engineering, BEng(Hons) Electrical & Electronic Engineering at University of Leeds
Github Skills (74)
postgresql10
microsoft-azure10
firebase10
auth10
database10
deno9
postgis9
ai9
realtime9
pgvector9
discord9
nextjs9
parsing9
supabase9
azure8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
clarotech/NHSITKLibrary
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
A library to create the STU3 FHIR ITK FHIR Message wrappers as per NHS Digital.
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 months
itk
clarotech/UKCoreFSH
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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