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Dipak Kalra

Dipak Kalra MBBS, PhD, FRCGP, MRCP, FBCS

Medicine
London, England, United Kingdom

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Dipak Kalra, PhD, FRCGP, FBCS, British, is President of The European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec) and the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD). He plays a leading international role in research and development of EHR architectures and systems, including approaches to harmonise clinical meaning and protect privacy, and had led the development of key international standards on EHR interoperability.

Dipak leads the Managing Entity 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 Clinical Professor of Health Informatics at University College London, United Kingdom, a Director of the openEHR Foundation, and a member of standards bodies including CEN, ISO and HL7-UK.
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