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Maria O’Loughlin is Engagement Specialist at the HSE and is currently finishing a Msc in Organisational Psychology.
She believes technology can have an impact on how healthcare is delivered and is passionate that this change will be enabled people not process.
Joanne Sweeney-Burke is a communications professional having worked as a broadcast journalist, PR practitioner and lecturer as well as CEO in various business roles.
She is CEO of Digital Training Institute and is dedicated to bringing individuals and organisations into the digital age with her consultancy and training services. She is the author of Social Media Under Investigation, Law Enforcement and the Social Web, which takes a forensic look at how police forces are using social media. She is currently writing her second social media themed book.
Joanne is a regular speaker at major social media and digital marketing conferences including Social Media Summit (Dublin), Big Data Retail Analytics Forum (London), SMILE conference (social media, the Internet and law enforcement - Phoenix, Arizona) and Digital Citizenship Summit (Bournemouth University). She has also taken to the TEDx stage in Omagh.
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Programme Lead for Information Services, Office of the Chief Information Office
A graduate with degrees in Applied Science, an MBA and LLB Eugene Farrell has been working in the HSE since 2003. Eugene’s started his career in the health service as a Radiation Therapist treating cancer patients. Moving to Ireland from Australia in 2003 Eugene was appointed Radiation Oncology Services Manager at Galway University Hospitals. Having held various positions within Cancer Services Eugene moved to a business management function in the Regional Directors Office where intra alia he was responsible for planning and performance in 2012. On the restructuring of the Regional office Eugene took up the role of Business Intelligence Development under the Deputy Director General’s office. In November this year Eugene was appointed as the Programme Lead for the Information Service under the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Gemma Garvan has recently joined the HSE OoCIO senior management team from Healthlink.
Gemma has joined the team to work on the Access to Information Portfolio. She has a background in Computer Science and Software engineering and has 15 years’ experience in the eHealth industry.
Gemma has worked as the programme head for the National Healthlink project for over a decade and has seen the expansion of the service from a single hospital proof-of-concept to a national broker for nation wide messaging, enabling over 10 million exchanges of information annually, between 61 hospitals and 3500 GPs throughout Ireland.