Member Directory

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.

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.