About us
Specialist health integration, delivered directly.
Basal is a specialist health integration consultancy. We take on a small number of engagements at a time, sized so the work runs from architecture through to signed-off, in-production systems — no layers, no hand-off.
We work where technical depth meets governance fluency: designing the architecture and translating it into decisions the executive can actually make. Most engagements involve clinical messaging (HL7 v2.x, FHIR), middleware, cross-agency data sharing, cloud migration, and the security artefacts (Privacy Impact Assessments, Security Risk Assessments, Authority to Operate) needed to actually ship in a government environment.
Leadership
Flynn McLean
Principal Architect
Flynn has spent five years building national-scale clinical infrastructure across New Zealand and Australia, building on nearly a decade of senior system design and delivery work inside government. His health integration work spans New Zealand's notifiable disease surveillance pipelines and STI surveillance platform, through to the IT transition of Northern Beaches Hospital, NSW's largest private-to-public hospital handover. He has worked across the full stack: HL7/FHIR interface design, middleware architecture, cross-agency data sharing, cloud migration, and executive governance.
He has operated as principal architect and programme lead on Cabinet-mandated programmes, chaired cross-organisational working groups spanning multiple government agencies, and negotiated tri-agency information sharing agreements through to execution and sign-off.
Before health, Flynn led system design and analytics work across central-government recovery programmes, operating-model and pandemic response, and tertiary-sector funding infrastructure and has a track record of building production systems inside government under deadline pressure.
Recognition
Board Chair Commendation, NSLHD Exceptional People Awards 2025 — individually recognised as Solutions Architect within Digital Health Services for contributions to the Northern Beaches Hospital IT transition programme.
Selected work
Health integration
- Northern Beaches Hospital IT transition NSW Health · 2026
- Notifiable Disease Information Ecosystem (NDIE) Ministry of Health NZ · 2025
- Health security & surveillance ESR (Crown Research Institute) · 2021–2025