With an educational background in Health Informatics, Leilei is a nationally recognised informatics leader. She has worked extensively in clinical classifications, casemix designs, business intelligence, terminologies and EHR (Electronic Health Record) system implementations. Her interest has always been leveraging the NHS data and digital technology to drive clinical excellence, better patient experience, process automation and other innovations.
She has carried out several heads of the departments and leadership roles. She led the first SNOMED CT implementation in MEDITECH EHR in the UK and enabled the trust to be the first organization to achieve fully automated outpatient coding. She is currently leading the Clinical Data Standards program in the Epic EHR system in UCLH and NLP related national projects in the UCL Biomedical Research Centre, Clinical Research Informatics Unit. In April 2021, she initiated a program which enabled UCLH as the first Epic site in the world to implement native SNOMED-CT for diagnosis recording in Epic. Jointly with EPIC development team, they further developed a utility within the software. All future Epic sites in the UK will fully benefit from this utility (affecting up to 20 million people by 2025).
She enjoys teaching health informatics curriculums to UCL medical students. She also serves as a critic and translator for BMJ China and sits in the peer review panel for Intelligent Medicine journal.
