Henrique Martins

Prof. Dr. Henrique Martins, MD, PhD, MLaw, FIAHSI, was one of the first CMIOs in Portugal and during the years at the Ministry of Health he was responsible for setting the agenda for eHealth in Portugal. He was president of SPMS, Portugal’s Digital Health Agency for close to 7 years and the former Member States co-chair of the EU eHealth Network, the highest policy body on eHealth in the Union. Between 2020-2024 he is part of the HL7 Europe Foundation Board of Directors. He works as an academic at ISCTE, FCS-UBI in Portugal, and at Korea University Medicine (Visiting professor), teaching and researching in Digital Health, Healthcare Systems and Transformation, Leadership and Management education for Medical Students and Health Professionals. He is engaged in individual consulting projects in Healthcare Transformation and Digital Health (www.henriquemartins.eu), as Senior Consultant in Digital Health and Innovation for the WHO Athens Quality of Care and Patient Safety Office. He is also the coordinator of XpanDH Project (https://xpandh-project.iscte-iul.pt/)