- Dr. Tony Shannon is a consultant in emergency medicine and chief clinical information officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals who advocates for connecting healthcare through open standards and open source technology.
- He argues that healthcare needs an open platform approach integrating people, processes, and information technology to overcome current challenges of disconnected systems and closed solutions.
- In Leeds, they are developing an open standards-based electronic patient record system using openEHR archetypes that will integrate data across primary, secondary, social and mental healthcare to improve outcomes.