Sam Heard
Chairperson NT Faculty at University College London
Muirhead, Northern Territory, Australia
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Top SchoolSam Heard is a clinician-leader and health informatics pioneer with 20+ years driving electronic health record standards, co-designing the original openEHR specification and early kernel work now used globally. He combines frontline remote and Aboriginal primary care leadership as Medical Director of Central Australian Aboriginal Congress with governance roles including Chairperson of the openEHR Foundation and the RACGP NT Faculty. Sam has steered commercial and research translation as a founder/director of Ocean Informatics and as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at UCL, bridging standards, implementation and policy. His unique profile marries hands-on clinical systems design with practical rural health service delivery, giving him rare insight into how standards affect care on the ground. A long-standing contributor to interoperability governance (HL7, IHTSDO, Standards Australia) he focuses on modelling and archetype-driven interoperability rather than simple communication. Based in the Northern Territory, he blends academic credibility and grassroots clinical leadership to advance digitally enabled, culturally appropriate care.
20 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MRCGP, Medicine, MRCGP, Medicine at Royal College of General PractitionersFRACGP, Medicine, FRACGP, Medicine at Royal Australian College of General PractitionersMBBS, Medicine, MBBS, Medicine at University of AdelaideFellow, Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician, Fellow, Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician at Australian College of Health Informatics
Github Skills (10)
archetype10
dll9
ocean9
parser9
workbench7
openehr4
health4
cdr3
standardized2
health-informatics2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openEHR/arch_ed-dotnet
Jul 2005 - Jan 2012
Contributions:303 commits in 6 years 6 months
workbenchoceanarchetypeparseradl
samheard/digital-first
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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