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Loretto Grogan

 

 Loretto Grogan

Job Title and Organisation:
National Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer, HSE

Brief Biography:
Loretto is the National Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer working in the National Digital Health Clinical Office. The purpose of her role is to provide leadership and strategic direction for nursing and midwifery in conjunction with her multi-professional leaders  in digital health; ensure clinical practice is fully supported by the use of digital technology and data science; and the clinical workforce are empowered to practice and lead in a digitally-enabled healthcare system now and into the future.  

She believes connected digital health can make all our lives better and delivering an enabling architecture to support Irelands overarching vision for healthcare which is Slaintecare is a fundamental driver for her role.  

She started her career training to be a Registered General Nurse in Beaumont Hospital and since then has undergraduate studies in information systems and an MSc in Health Informatics from Trinity College in addition to further studies in statistics, health economics, project management, and health innovation. She is published in a number of peer review journals and is a contributing author to a number of books.  

Loretto has extensive experience working across health services and has worked in a variety of clinical and management roles in acute and community services, research, project management, data analytics, quality improvement and leadership roles. She is a professional member of the Irish Computer Society. 

Session Title:
Data as a Catalyst: Driving Innovation and Growth : The Future is behind us - results of a national survey to understand the current digital health climate

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