Rik Smithies
Technical Chair HL7 UK
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRik Smithies is a clinical informatics and health architecture consultant with over 25 years of commercial software experience and a deep focus on healthcare since 1994. As Technical Chair of HL7 UK and a member of HL7 International Standards Governance, he combines standards leadership with hands‑on implementation as a certified HL7 Practitioner and FHIR Certified Implementer. He advises regulators and industry—including the EMA, NHS, NATO and Swiss pharma—on semantic interoperability, clinical information modelling, SNOMED CT and ISO IDMP, and has co‑chaired HL7 clinical statement modelling efforts. Technically grounded in architecture, database design and programming (UML, XML, XSLT, SQL, C#), Rik also contributes code to the official HL7 FHIR repository, helping generate spec NPM packages and extend data types. Known for translating complex clinical requirements into practical, auditable solutions, he pairs rigorous academic training in physics and software engineering with decades of domain-specific delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at The University of Birmingham, PhysicsMSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at The University of Birmingham, Comp Sci.University of Birmingham
Github Skills (8)
smart-on-fhir10
javas10
hl7-fhir10
java10
documents7
documentation7
document-generation7
npm7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HL7/fhir
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1262 commits, 894 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rik's contributions primarily involve modifications to Java code related to the HL7 FHIR specification, specifically within the `hl7/fhir` repository. The commits demonstrate work on generating NPM packages, including changes to classes like `JavaGenerator`, `SpecNPMPackageGenerator`, and `NPMPackageGenerator`. Furthermore, the user has made code changes related to the addition of new data types within the specification, and modifications to generate specification documentation.
hl7-fhirfhir
digitalsocialcare/FHIR
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Repository for FHIR mapping to data standards
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes in 12 days
data-standardsmappingstandardsfhir
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