Parker Digital Health Consulting · est. 2018
The architecture, standards, and governance craft behind national digital-health platforms, brought to your programme.
Four decades of practice. National reference architectures, federated EHR blueprints, HL7 leadership, and trusted counsel to ministries on the questions that don't fit into an RFP.
Ronald Parker, FHL7
Principal Consultant
Recognition
Fellow of HL7 International
Continuous practice since 1985
Four decades in one line of work.
Continuous practice in digital health since 1985: the same discipline, deepened over time and across geographies.
in digital health
Continuous practice since 1985: architecture, standards, national platforms.
guided investment
The federated EHR investment steered by the national reference architecture Ron led at Canada Health Infoway (2006 – 2017).
countries reached
Through work with UN specialised agencies and direct ministry advisory across four continents.
Fellow of HL7 International
Peer-conferred recognition for sustained international contribution to health informatics; a small annual cohort. FHL7 is the post-nominal.
The practice
Six services, one discipline: durable systems for health and care service delivery.
Parker DHC works with ministries, national agencies, funders, and delivery partners on the parts of a digital-health programme that must be scalable and extensible over time, potentially for decades.
Enterprise & reference architecture
National reference architectures, federated EHR blueprints, and system-of-systems designs that survive a change of government and a change of vendor.
Read moreStandards & interoperability
HL7 (v2, CDA, FHIR), SNOMED CT, LOINC, ISO/TC 215 profiles, chosen and shaped so a jurisdiction can actually implement them, not just cite them.
Read moreNational digital-health blueprints
Country-level platform plans developed with ministries, funders, and delivery partners: pragmatic, phased, and financeable.
Read moreProgramme & board advisory
Independent counsel to executives, boards, and steering committees on strategy, governance, procurement, and risk in complex digital-health programmes.
Read moreStandards governance & councils
Design and stewardship of the councils, working groups, and change-control that keep a standards portfolio coherent over decades, not just release cycles.
Read moreTeaching, mentoring, capacity-building
Multi-week and multi-year programmes for national architecture teams, from graduate analysts to future chief architects.
Read moreSelected engagements
Anonymised, because trust is the deliverable.
Clients are named only when explicit permission has been granted; otherwise, engagements are described by role, region, and scale. The detail is in the how.
A G7 federated EHR blueprint
A decade-plus reference architecture that steered ~CAD 1.2B of federated investment across sub-national jurisdictions.
Period
2003 – 2018
Scale
CAD 1.2B guided
Digital-health platform handbook for a UN specialised agency
Project lead and contributing editor for a global reference used by ministries and donors setting up national platforms.
Period
2014 – 2020
Scale
30+ countries
A Sri Lankan national health-data blueprint
Ministry-facing architecture and interoperability plan for the Sri Lankan national programme, at the moment of platform commitment.
Period
2019 – 2025
Scale
National · 22M
A career spent between these institutions
Board Director · Council Co-Chair
Affiliate Chair
Former Group Director · Architecture
Canadian Delegate · Health Informatics
Digital Health Platform Handbook
Former
Former
Former
Former
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