Paul Bradley – Health Interoperability Expert
Throughout my thirty-year career, I've been an individual contributor, solutions architect & software development manager, leading teams of developers. I now specialise in Health Interoperability and have worked with HL7, FHIR, DICOM and IHE. I have 26 years of healthcare experience, focusing on designing & developing software that leverages technology to deliver cost-effective, safe, and stable solutions. My programming proficiency covers C#, .NET, Go, Python, Terraform & AWS cloud technologies.
Career
Healthcare
Apr 2026 - Present: Associate Developer for AireLogic helping to realise the National Image Registry. A Python/FastAPI implementation of an IHE XCA Gateway. This is health interoperability at the national level. We had to do a deep dive into the DICOM specification to implement the RAD-75 transaction & to interpret Key Object Selection (KOS) documents. We're currently working on a FHIR R4 MHD implementation of the ITI-67 & ITI-68 transactions.
2023 - 2026: IT Development Manager - Newcastle Hospitals - Senior manager looking after a team of six developers and integration specialists. Responsible for a portfolio of over eighty projects and initiatives developed within the Hospital. Integrated several small dedicated EPR's into the main hospital system including Maternity and Ophthalmology. I was also responsible for the trust's downtime solution. The technology stack included .NET 10, SQL Server, and various integration tools.
2017 - 2023: IT Development Manager - Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB - Responsible for developing the Shared Care Record (ShCR) platform and architecture. Developed & implemented the following IHE profiles: XDS,XCA, XUA & DSUB.
2000 - 2017: Senior Developer / Solutions Architect - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals - Worked on developing and maintaining healthcare applications and integration solutions using .NET, SQL Server, and various healthcare integration tools.
Contact
I‘m based in Carlisle, Cumbria, and can be reached via the email address shown in the contact details below:
Paul BradleyCarlisle,
Cumbria,
contact@paulbradley.org
Projects
Outside of my professional work, I undertake recreational programming projects to scratch an itch or just make something exist:
Healthcare
Live: SpellCheck.cloud - Originally developed to spell-check clinical care plans, the medical spell-checking API allows clinicians to correct common misspellings before publishing their Discharge Summary Documents. The API offers a free-to-use medical spell checker, hosted on AWS serverless infrastructure, so it can scale to meet your requirements. Based on hunspell, the platform adds over 90K medical and drug terminology to an already comprehensive dictionary of English words. Clinical systems will be able to pass text to the Medical Spell Checker API and get a list of misspellings returned as JSON, along with a list of suggested replacements.
Under Development: DowntimeApp.cloud - This downtime solution will be a modern, cloud-native platform that supports clinical services during planned downtime of the main hospital EPR system. During unplanned downtime, the system provides critical information to hospital staff across multiple facilities, ensuring the continuity of patient care.
Maintained: go-cda - Go CDA is a Clinical Document Architecture parsing library for the Go programming language. This library was developed to parse Pathology reports saved in the CDA format.
Planned: AudioVault.cloud - Audio Vault will be a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to capture, normalize, and combine digital dictation recordings into a single dictation file. This file can be linked to a specific document within a Document Management System (DMS). The specification has been planned and much of the technology stack has been selected, just need to find some time to start the development.