Kathryn Kissane

Job Title and Organisation: 
Deputy Delivery Director, Standards & Shared Care Records, HSE

Brief Biography: 
Kathryn Kissane is a Deputy Delivery Director in Technology & Transformation (T&T) at the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland.  Her strong background in Program Management has enabled her to successfully lead and manage numerous projects, driving performance improvements across multiple sectors. 

Kathryn has had a diverse career, including working in financial management and as an economic analyst in the motor industry and in the education sector, founding a study abroad programme for international students in Ireland.  She then began working in Healthcare IT, managing the Claims Processing Centre for the HSE Health Repayment Scheme, as the Business-IT Manager for the Fair Deal system, and as a Senior Planning Manager.  

She now leads the Standards and Shared Care Records teams, whose purpose is to enable the sharing of standardised, interoperable digital health records for both healthcare professionals and citizens nationally and across borders.  She is also the T&T liaison for several ICT Peer Review Groups, facilitating communication and helping to maintain good governance for ICT projects subject to the DPER Peer Review Process. 

Session Title: 
Digital for Care 2030 

Session Overview (2-3 sentences): 
An overview of the MyHealth@IE Programme: National Shared Care Record, HSE App, and MyHealth@EU products 

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