Chief Medical Information Officer

The implementation of HSE Health Regions involves the internal reorganisation of HSE into six operational regions with the objective of realigning the incentives and drivers present within our health and social care system so that it is directed more towards providing care for people closer to home and keeping people healthy and well. It also aims to enable a coherent population-based approach to service planning and delivery, where care is planned and funded in line with people’s needs at regional and local level.

Digital technologies offer significant potential to transform healthcare, improving access, quality, and cost-efficiency. Empowering staff with digital tools and skills to deliver better healthcare is the cornerstone of transformation in the South West region especially in todays face-paced digital era.

The HSE’s Digital for Care 2030 is the Framework sets out a roadmap to digitally transform health services and provides a strategic and innovative plan to advance key Sláintecare programmes. The Digital for Care 2030 Framework is to provide seamless, safe, secure and connected digital health services that support health and wellbeing for both our patients and providers. The Regional Technology and Transformation office is responsible for turning the Digital for Care 2030 Framework into a reality ensuring that technology supports healthcare efficiently and effectively throughout the whole system.

Purpose of Post

To work as part of a team to ensure the delivery of major ICT enabled change programmes. This will include ensuring the services effect change to ensure the business benefits are delivered.

The CMIO, HSE SW will provide the clinical leadership to drive national programmes under Digital for Care 2030. The CMIO, HSE SW is the clinical business change lead for the region, with responsibilities including:

• Achieving full commitment to transformations required to achieve integrated healthcare for patients and service users, through the evolution of Digital for Care 2030.

• Utilising their clinical expertise and leadership in the design and delivery of clinical solutions in conjunction with the regional & national Technology & Transformation teams.

• Delivering the clinical governance framework for regional implementation of Digital for Care 2030 ensuring clinical effectiveness and clinical safety

• Ensuring clinical engagement in the adoption and use of technology, for continuous clinical process improvements, focussing on patient and service user outcomes.

• Providing clinical leadership for the digital and information development to support the safe and efficient design, implementation and use of systems to deliver improvements in the quality and outcomes of care

• Assisting the development of high quality clinical information and organisational reform

• Driving and supporting the transformation opportunities afforded through Digital for Care 2030.

In addition, the CMIO, HSE SW will provide advice and support to the Regional Executive Management Team through their role on the implementation of Digital for Care 2030; providing expert clinical informatics advice and guidance and working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure patient and clinical involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of systems and services.

Informal Enquiries

Vanessa Hamilton

Regional Director of Technology & Transformation, HSE SW

vanessa.hamilton1@hse.ie

087 2279912

Dr Peter Kearney

Chief Clinical Officer, HSE SW,

Peter.kearney@hse.ie

086 8101864