President, EuroRec; EHR4CR
Dipak Kalra plays a leading international role in research and development of Electronic Health Record architectures and systems, including the requirements and models needed to ensure the robust long-term preservation of clinical meaning and protection of privacy. He leads the development of CEN (European Committee for Standardization) and ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standards on EHR interoperability, personal health records, EHR requirements, and has contributed to several EHR security and confidentiality standards.
He leads the Managing Entity (EuroRec) for a €16m Innovative Medicines Initiative on the re-use of electronic health record information for clinical research, EHR4CR, alongside ten global pharmaceutical companies. EuroRec is also a partner in another IMI project, EMIF, on the development of a European clinical research platform federating multiple population health and cohort studies. Dipak also leads an EU Network of Excellence on semantic interoperability, and is a partner in other EU projects on the sustainability of interoperability assets and the transatlantic sharing patient summaries. Dipak is a Director of the openEHR Foundation, and a member of multiple standards bodies including BSI Group, CEN, ISO and HL7-UK (International HL7 Implementations).
Dipak is President of the European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec), which is the Managing Entity for the EHR4CR project as well as coordinating or a partner in many other EC projects on electronic health record quality and systems accreditation, interoperability and the uses of health data for research. EuroRec leads a network of national ProRec Centres which promote good quality EHR system adoption across Europe.
Dipak Kalra is Clinical Professor of Health Informatics at University College London, UK. He teaches on the subject of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Health care quality on the UCL Masters Programme in Health Informatics, and supervises PhD students.
He plays a leading international role in research and development of electronic health record architectures and systems, including the requirements and models needed to ensure the robust long-term preservation of clinical meaning and protection of privacy. This includes coordinating a European Network of Excellence on Semantic Interoperability. He leads the development of major CEN and ISO standards on EHR interoperability (EN ISO 13606), and also standards on personal health records, EHR requirements and EHR security and confidentiality.
Dipak is a founding Director of the openEHR Foundation, a not-for-profit company which exists to promote and publish, via the Web, the formal specification of requirements for electronic health record information, supporting development of open specifications for health information systems.
Dipak’s innovations in EHR architectures have been spun out into a company: Helicon Health, providing cardiovascular chronic disease management services across London.