Tim Benson

Tim Benson has been a leading thought leader in health informatics for over 30 years. He founded Abies Informatics Ltd in 1980 as one of the first primary care computer suppliers and was responsible for development of the Read Codes, used by all GPs in the UK and one of the two main sources of SNOMED CT. He co-chaired the HL7 Education Committee for several years. He was the founding convenor of CEN TC251 WG3, responsible for health interoperability standards in Europe. He is interoperability architect for the Wellcome Trust's Sintero server project. He is author of "Principles of Health Interoperability HL7 and SNOMED", Springer 2010.