Thomas Bowden

Thomas Bowden is chief executive officer of HealthLink Ltd, a New Zealand-based health-system integration company that he cofounded in 1993 under an agreement with the New Zealand Government. HealthLink provides electronic communications and data security services to more than 9,000 individual health care organizations across New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific. HealthLink is currently leading an Australasian-wide initiative to implement electronic referrals between primary care providers and hospitals. Mr Bowden has been involved in a series of international health system comparisons and he has performed consulting assignments for government health care agencies in Australia, Canada, and Denmark.