As a strategist and systems architect Ed Dodds has performed corporate intranet and related development for Compuware, Data Management & Research [now HealthStream Research], Deloitte Consulting, Deloitte Services LLP, Disciples of Christ Historical Society, EDS, General Motors, HCA, Healthways, LifePoint Hospitals, Marubeni Steel, Peregrine (for such clients as Andersen, Bank of America, Citigroup, Delphi, Johnson & Johnson, MorganStanley, Pearson, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Saturn Corporation, St. Mary's Bookstore, United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee, and the World Convention of Churches of Christ.

He was a proposer of the OASIS International Health Continuum Technical Committee and an observer to the ebXML Business Process Technical Committee focusing on ebBP's possible applications in the healthcare and nonprofit sectors. He has been involved with the International Free and Open Source Software Foundation, several LinkedIn.com "Open" groups, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative, Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, the Technology Affinity Group of the Council on Foundations, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) International Open Source Network (IOSN).

Dodds has edited or contributed to the ADRIS.org, Blogposium, and the ebxmlforum.net eHealthcare industry area, healthcare.xml.org, and MBlog, the Medical Banking Blog.

Dodds anticipates a medical banking grid connecting High Deductible Health Plans, Healthcare Savings Accounts, real-time adjudication, integrated charity care eligibility, and Smartphone-based Electronic Medical Records and mobile payments with provider point of service pricing; eHealth interactive home healthcare servers extended with wireless sensors and other devices facilitating remote disease management; medical data expressed via cell phones, web tablets, IPTV set top boxes, ATMs, kiosks, and web portals.

As a standards advisor he is liaising on behalf of the Medical Banking Project cooperative open-source medical banking and technology healthcare reference model initiative (C.O.M.B.A.T.) with the Healthcare Ontology Community of Practice (the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, the Open Group Universal Data Element Framework, US GSA Office of Citizens Service & Communications Office of Intergovernmental Solutions), the HIMSS Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative, the Object Management Group (OMG) Healthcare Domain and Health Level 7 Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP) workgroup (including the SOA for HL7 initiative), the Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework, the OASIS and HL7 e-Health focus area, and the Open Source EHR Community of Practice (including OpenEHR, OpenVistA and WorldVistA).

Technologies: AJAX, Apache, ASP, ASP.NET, ATOM, blogs, BOINC, C#, CivicSpace, Cocoon, DotNetNuke, Drupal, ebXML (BPSS, CPA, freebxml Hermes, freebxml Registry|Repository), eclipse, Google Analytics, Hibernate, LinkedIn, Linux (Red Hat, SuSE), J2EE, Java, JBoss, Joomla, Jonas, JRun, Magnolia, Mambo, MDA, Microsoft CMS, Microsoft Community Server, Mono, MySQL, .NET, NetBeans, ontologies, Open Source, OptimalJ, Oracle 10G, PERL, PHP, Plone, Postgres, Python, RSS, Ruby on Rails, SAS, semantic web, Sharepoint, SIP, SOA, SugarCRM, SUN App Server, taxonomies, Tomcat, UBL, UDEF, UML, UMM, Visual Studio 2005/2008, VOIP, WAP, web services, WebTrends, wikis, World Community Grid, XBRL, XHTML, Zend, Zope.

His undergraduate and graduate work (B.A. Bible, M.A. Mission) was in intercultural, organizational and religious communications.