Dr. Linda Bird

Dr. Linda Bird is a global expert in healthcare information standards and the author of The Essential Guide to SNOMED CT (2025). Dr Bird’s expertise includes clinical terminology, information modelling, electronic health records, data analytics, semantic interoperability, and HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).

As director and principal consultant for Bellbird Enterprises (Australia), Dr Bird has been active in contributing to healthcare interoperability. She has served as an advisor to Canada Health Infoway, SNOMED CT implementation lead for the Cancer Control Agency (Te Aho o Te Kahu) in New Zealand, and senior information architect for the Cancer Alliance Queensland in Australia. Through these roles, Dr Bird has collaborated with clinicians, vendors, data analysts, and terminologists to design and develop solutions that use healthcare information standards to model, share and analyze healthcare data, with the goal of improving patient outcomes and healthcare service delivery.

Dr Bird worked at SNOMED International from 2014 to 2022, where she led the talented Implementation Support Team, providing advice and assistance to implementations of SNOMED CT globally. She also led SNOMED International's Education Team, which delivers SNOMED CT education to over 80 countries. During her time at SNOMED International, Linda developed a range of technical guides and specifications, including the SNOMED CT query language (ECL), template syntax (ETL), machine readable concept model (MRCM), and COVID-19 Data Guide. She also co-chaired a range of health informatics groups, including SNOMED on FHIR, the HL7 Clinical Information Modelling Initiative, the SNOMED CT computable languages working group, and the SNOMED CT drug extension user group.

Dr Bird’s earlier roles include information architect at MOH Holdings (Singapore), senior information architect at NEHTA (Australia), team lead at DSTC (Australia), and senior data architect at Asymetrix Corporation (USA). Linda has a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia and was awarded a university medal for her Bachelor of Information Technology with Honours.