David Markwell Employment History

2011-present: Chief Implementation and Innovation Officer at the IHTSDO

1989-2011: Principal Consultant at the Clinical Information Consultancy Ltd

1985-1989: Technical Director of Abies Informatics Ltd

• Involved in development of medical information systems for general practice and hospitals
  • Specified and developed a clinical information system for use in General Practice and hospitals.
    • The system is was widely used in the UK for many years and evolved into a system still in current use.
  • Responsible for interfacing work between this clinical information system and several other systems including: patient administration systems, patient held smart cards and a commercial data collection system.
  • Redeveloped a clinical questionnaire system (Mickie) for use with Abies CIS including design, development and implementation of a special purpose language for interrogating and manipulating information in the clinical database (CNL).
  • Designed and developed interfaces from Abies CIS (hospital and GP systems) to patient held smart card system (Exeter Care Card).

1982-1985: Partner in a busy rural General Practice

• Practised in a busy rural three man practice
• Acted as deputy police surgeon for over three years
• Used an early GP computer systems including a computerised medical record system
• Studied various issues related to the use of information technology and coding systems in health care and carried out part-time work on developments in this field

1977-1982: Various hospital and GP training posts

• General hospital medicine (total of one year)
• General surgery (total of one year)
• Accident and emergency (total of 6 months)
• Paediatrics (6 months)
• Obstetrics and gynaecology (6 months)
• Australian general practice (locum for 3 months)