Dipak Kalra, PhD, FRCGP, FBCS (United Kingdom)
President, the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data
International Invited Chair
Professor Dipak Kalra, PhD, FRCGP, FACMI, FBCS, plays a leading international role in research and development of Electronic Health Records, including the reuse of EHRs for research. Dipak was a former London general practitioner and until recently the Professor of Health Informatics at University College London. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Gent. Dipak has over the past 25 years led the development of ISO standards on EHR interoperability, personal health records, EHR requirements and data protection. He is involved in multiple EU Horizon and IMI/IHI projects in these areas. His current projects include support for the accelerated uptake of digital health innovations, scaling up the quality, interoperability and the reuse of health data for research including inputs to the European Health Data Space, the collection and use of health outcomes towards more value-based care, the development of an AI-powered federated learning platform in lung cancer and initiatives to improve a patient’s understanding of their medication to improve confidence and adherence. Dipak is President of The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (www.i-hd.eu). This institute, which he co-founded in 2016, develops and promotes strategies and enabling solutions that can improve healthcare and accelerate research through more trustworthy learning from health data. It is a multi-stakeholder not for profit body that supports healthcare and research organisations, and patients, to capture and reuse better quality health data. It promotes the adoption of interoperability standards, data quality assessment and improvement, good practices in privacy protection and focusing healthcare on outcomes and value.