The people behind GOSEHR
CEO, GOSEHR. Co-Director, Seven Informatics. DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford.
Naveed Dogar is the CEO of GOSEHR (Global Open Source Electronic Health Records), a charitable incorporated organisation dedicated to bringing the benefits of clinician-led, open-source Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems to lower-income countries through engagement, education, research, and community collaboration. She is also a Co-Director of Seven Informatics, a company specialising in consultancy, support, and maintenance for the cityEHR based open source EHR systems. They provide services such as clinical analysis, information modelling, installation, and systems support.
Her Master's research, titled "Clinician-led Development of an Open Source EHR," explored how clinicians could use simple tools such as spreadsheets to design and deploy enterprise-scale health records systems. After graduating, Naveed continued her final project in collaboration with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, delivering an open source EHR for the clubfoot clinic. She has since worked as a clinical analyst on projects implementing open source EHR systems at Nottingham University Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.
Naveed also has extensive teaching experience and has helped deliver the Applied Healthcare Informatics program at Fordham University in New York. She is currently undertaking a DPhil at the University of Oxford, where her research focuses on the internationalisation of open source EHR systems. Alongside her academic and professional pursuits, she balances her work with family life as a mother of two young boys and acts as a vice-chair for AMRA, an association that promotes and advises on STEM research careers in young muslim women. Her long-term aspiration is to increase access to basic healthcare needs in low/middle income countries.
Director, Seven Informatics. Adjunct Professor, Health Informatics at University of Victoria
Dr John Chelsom has worked for over 30 years in the field of Health Informatics. He has been a Visiting Professor in Health Informatics at City University, London and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is a consultant for the World Bank where he is an invited expert on Telemedicine, publishing a handbook for Rural Telemedicine in Ukraine. He is currently Director of the Applied Health Informatics program at Fordham University.
In the 1990s he was heavily involved in the application of open standards for structured information in the publishing, automotive and healthcare sectors. He started a company which developed the first web-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) product deployed in England's National Health Service (NHS). This product went on to form the foundation of the Summary Care Record in England's National Health Service, starting in 2004.
As well as EHR systems, John was also responsible for the first online versions of the BMJ's Clinical Evidence product, the first XML production system for the British National Formulary and was a proposer of the Open Document Format for Office Applications. In 2010, he started the Open Health Informatics research programme at City University, London, looking to address the causes of failure of the National Programme for IT. This research led to the development of the open source cityEHR – an ontology-based health records system, based on open standards, interfaces and development practices. cityEHR is now deployed as an operational EHR in several hospitals in England and is used for teaching students in health informatics.
