Tim Cook

• Co-founder of Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA).
• Organizing Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association, Open Source Working Group(AMIA-OSWG).
• Member UK Council for Health Informatics Professions (UKchip).

Member openEHR ARB since Mar 2004.

Tim's background from the mid 1970's to the mid 1990's with the U.S. Government in voice and data RF communications systems was a natural lead in to leased-line WAN / LAN computer communications systems. This experience led to involvement with connecting dissimilar data storage systems using various communications protocols across several networks, different hardware platforms and operating systems.

An open source advocate since 1994, Tim became involved in health care IT in 1997 and immediately saw that open collaboration and shared development of standards and applications could lead to the solutions to untangle the communications and data storage nightmare that is health informatics today.

While starting up an open source EHR project http://sourceforge.net/projects/op-torch/ Tim also encouraged collaboration between various projects on an international basis and became a co-founder of the Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA) in Tim's focus and dedication to a better health care IT infrastructure was rewarded by him being the inaugural recipient of the Linux Medical News Open Source Achievement Award in 2001.

Tim completed a MSc Health Informatics program (w/Merit) in 2006. He is enjoying integrating academic theory with his extensive real-world experience. For more information about his availability for consulting please see his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook