Michael Bainbridge

Mike has dedicated his career to Clinical Informatics. In the last 35 years he has worked for both Governments and Industry. He has designed and brought to market Clinical Computer Systems for Primary Care. He worked with both BMA and UK Government in the 2003 negotiation of the Quality-based National General Practitioner Contract. He was a founder and Technical Director of the UK National PRIMIS initiative delivering key educational and data quality interventions across UK General Practice. He led the Clinical Architecture and Assistive Technology teams at NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH UK) delivering innovations in hardware (Personal Clinical Assistant) and clinical interface design (Microsoft Common User Interface Programme) for both professionals and citizens. 

Since moving to Australia, he has worked on delivering the National eHealth record ‘MyHealth Record’ and continues to advise the Digital Health Agency at high level (Most recently on maternal and child health record standards and a national health innovation strategy). He recently wrote a Digital Health strategy for the Asian Development Bank and contributed to several of their COVID and post COVID strategies. He also spent time as the Asia-Pacific Clinical lead for SNOMED-CT International.

His current role is with Leidos as the Clinical Architect on the JP2060 Phase4 programme, rolling out a standards-based (SNOMED and FHIR) clinical ecosystem for all aspects of healthcare from Enlistment to Field Hospital; from Garrison to Veteran’s status.

He continues to ‘evangelise’ safety and usability from Common Components in both his consulting and academic roles. He is currently Course Organiser for Digital Health at University of Technology Sydney. 

In addition to his UK and Australian work, he has also worked over the years at high level with several other governments on their e-health strategies notably Brazil, Egypt and Saudi Arabia