Member Directory

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.

Michael Redmond is the Director of Change and Portfolio Management for the Office of the CIO. Michael has many years’ experience in the Health sector leading major projects and was previously IT manager for the NEHB covering five acute hospitals and community care over four counties.

Michael began his ICT career as a programmer with the Revenue Commissioners in the early 1990s, before moving on to the Department of Foreign Affairs as a systems analyst, and subsequently to the Department of Finance before taking up a position with the North Eastern Health board/Primary Care unit in 1998. Here he led the NEHBs successful drive to computerise 80% of all GP practices in the region, before going on to lead the ICT project which enabled the regional GP out of hours service.

Certified in both PRINCE2 and ITIL, Michael introduced the first regional ICT service desk to the NEHB in 2005.

Since 2011, Michael has led the ICT planning division of the HSE, where he created the Business Development unit dedicated to facilitating ICT initiatives in partnership with service managers and users.

In his new role as Director of Change and Portfolio Management, Michael is taking on the exciting challenge of developing the organisation’s capability to provide programme and change management services, with a view to the maximising the benefits of our investment in technology, for our care providers and for our clients.

Joyce is the Clinical Information Officer in the Office of the CIO, for the Health Service Executive in Ireland. She is also a Senior Chartered Physiotherapist for the HSE based out of Cork.

Joyce has worked as the clinical lead in primary care team and primary care team coordinator

Joyce also managed the roll out of National Electronic General GP Referral Project to former Cork and Kerry Hospital Group.

Vincent is a programme manager at the HSE in Ireland with extensive experience delivering large-scale IT-enabled business change initiatives throughout the healthcare system.

His specialties include:
Full programme life-cycle from inception to completion.
Change management & benefits realisation.
Adapting project methodologies (Prince2, PMBOK) to a real-world business context.

Extensive knowledge of business intelligence and analytics software products and market.

Broad product marketing and marketing communications experience.

Deep knowledge of tactical competitive & strategic market intelligence practices.

Compelling writing skills.

Very strong presentation & training abilities.

Specialties: Market and competitive intelligence, strategic research, market research, BI, analytics & performance management software markets, technical and copy writing.

Supporting the Knowledge and Information team within the NIHR CRN Ruth seeks to ensure operational and project needs are meet. Professional, personal and pragmatic; Ruth strives to have two feet on the ground, a job in hand and a visionary mind set.

With 10 years experience in the healthcare sector, I have expertise in portfolio, programme and project management, business analysis, business case development, public sector procurement team leadership and IT strategy.

I am the Head of Knowledge & Information for the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN). I work and deputise for the CIO of the IS Directorate and oversee the delivery of programmes of work using a variety of technologies. I lead a team of technology-focused staff to deliver Information Systems solutions to support clinical research.

Christian is a versatile IT professional with experience in service and project management in the Health Sector. His areas of expertise include service implementation, information security, data transfer, service delivery and service support.

Chris King is a Programme Manager with the NIHR Clinical Research Network. He is responsible for delivering the Central Portfolio Management System Programme, incorporating Identify Management. The final output of the projects under this programme will transform how NIHR CRN can support clinical research in the UK.

Chris also sits on the NIHR CRN Knowledge and Information Senior Management Team and is often used to find interesting ways to describe how we work.