Alain Maskens, MD

• Chief Scientific Officer of HEALTHone Global Ltd

Member openEHR CRB since June 2006.

While born and living in Brussels, Alain Maskens is currently the Chief Scientific Officer of HEALTHone Global Ltd (London, UK).

A Louvain (Belgium) and Boston trained internist and medical oncologist, he obtained a Ph. D. in experimental cancer research in 1982. He practiced medical oncology in Belgium for several years, while pursuing part-time research activities in preventative oncology. His research activities, led in co-operation with scientists at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in NY, led him to create the European Cancer Prevention organization in 1982, of which he is now Past President and a board member. He also is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Alain’s research activity led him in 1985 to create the first version of Health One, one of the first examples of PC-based health record software. In 1986, he was co-founder of Health Data Management Partners s.a. (Brussels) (HDMP), within which the development and marketing of Health One for the Belgian market has been continued to the present day. At HDMP Alain participated in the creation of the international research consortium which won the invitation to tender of the European Community for the development of a widely applicable data architecture for electronic healthcare records (The Good European Health Record project, 1992-1995). His research effort was mainly directed towards the portability of the individual health record. He was one of the joint authors of the health record architecture produced by the GEHR project. He has continued to pursue research on standards in this fields, as founding member of the CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation, the EU standards organisation)) technical committee on medical informatics. Alain remains active in the CEN working group on the standard architecture for communication of healthcare records.

In 2004, Alain Maskens cooperated in the creation of Health One Global, a Company now responsible for the development and distribution of HEALTHone based EHR solutions at the international level.