Tag eHealth Ireland
Originally published via Horizon Business Innovation The point in which the IT industry began to conflate the words innovation and entrepreneur bothers me as a CIO in the public sector. On a regular basis public sector technology picks up negative… Read More
First published as a blog article on in the Health Management Institute of Ireland Journal. One of the most critical parts that must be carefully considered when creating an eHealth fabric for any care delivery system is not the latest… Read More
Originally published by HIMSS Europe as a guest blog in December 2015. No more than any other business or service area supported by technology health needs innovation. Simply following the horizontal innovation path will not bring the type of different… Read More
It’s that most wonderful time of year again, Christmas is done, and for the last three years I have looked forward to writing down the fun stuff that has added a bit of magic to everyday of the year. It… Read More
At the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) conference I was quoted as saying, ‘Investment in technology for health should not be seen as an investment in IT but an investment in the delivery and improvement of health care for… Read More
Originally published in Health Management Institute of Ireland The amazing work of Chip and Dan Heath in the book ‘Switch: How to change things when change is hard’ describes a series of analogies that reference organisational change. One of these… Read More
In February 2015, our new CIO Richard Corbridge asked me if I would take on the challenge of leading our drive to build Projects, Programme & Portfolio Management (PPPM) division, within what would become the new Operating Model for the freshly… Read More
12 months ago at the inaugural eHealthSummit in Croke Park in Dublin, I was asked to speak at the Locknote panel on the challenges for eHealth and the Implementation of the eHealth Strategy in the next 12 months. Top of… Read More
The consumerisation of technology was to be solved by two mega trends: BYOD and gamification. If we could exploit these two things then every person in every organisation would become an IT super user overnight and we could even do… Read More
Stereotypes are quite destructive things aren’t they? The IT Crowd would have you believe that the most important skill in an IT professional is their ability to treat ‘users’ with complete disdain and to deliver a witty one liner at… Read More