Professor Richard Greene is the HSE Chief Clinical Information Officer working with the office of the Chief Clinical Officer and Chief Information Officer.

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin he gained much of his clinical experience in the Coombe Womens' Hospital, Dublin. In July 1999, he took up a position as Fellow in Maternal-Foetal Medicine in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA. On his return to Ireland in 2001, he joined UCC as Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: and took up his current posts as Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (NPEC) and Professor of Clinical Obstetrics, UCC, in 2007. Prof. Greene was instrumental in commissioning and establishing the new maternity services at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) and continues to maintain a senior management position within the service and it is also where he also undertakes his clinical practice.

His research interests include maternal-foetal medicine, epidemiology, health services research incorporating risk management, quality of service and translational research including digital health. Specifically, his future interests lie in the establishment of NPEC as a national service with the aim to improve clinical services for patients. Towards this goal, he has been involved in the development of a single national chart for obstetrics; and is centrally involved in the Maternal Newborn Clinical Management System (MN-CMS) project, to get a single electronic medical record for all maternity hospitals. 

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Professor Brian Cleary is the Clinical Lead for the MN-CMS Medication Workstream.

Brian has worked in the maternity services since 2002 and is Chief Pharmacist in the Rotunda Hospital Dublin and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the RCSI. He has postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Pharmacy (MSc, 2006) and Pharmacoepidemiology/ Medicines in Pregnancy (PhD, 2011). 

Brian has led the MN-CMS medications workstream since 2015. Through the establishment of an effective team of Informatics Pharmacists and broad multidisciplinary collaboration within the MN-CMS project team and more broadly in live sites, the medications team have designed, implemented and optimised medication-related functionality in MN-CMS. The medications workstream have a broad aim of building safe and effective medication use processes, constantly progressing to improve patient safety and enhance user experience. With Brian’s guidance the team benchmark the system against international standards and safety recommendations in order to maximise the patient safety benefits of MN-CMS. 

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Fiona is the Business Manager for the MN-CMS National Project Team.

Fiona is a Registered General Nurse and a Registered Midwife with over 30 years clinical experience both in Ireland and the UK holding a number of clinical and managerial posts. Fiona joined the MN-CMS Project in 2014 as the Project Manager for the successful implementation of MN-CMS in University Hospital Kerry in March 2017 and then joined the MN-CMS National Project Team as the Business Manager in April 2018.

Fiona is responsible for the roll-out out of MN-CMS, from a clinical perspective, to all maternity hospitals/units in Ireland, ensuring the system is implemented to meet the business needs of the National Women and Infants Health Programme.

Fiona also provides clinical leadership and management to the MN-CMS Clinical Workstream leads which include: Maternity, NICU, Gynaecology, Risk Management and Change and Transformation.

As Business Manager Fiona is looking forward to working closely with national and local stakeholders supporting local implementation teams to ensure successful deployment of the MN-CMS system to the remaining maternity hospitals/units in Ireland. 

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Emma has been a Pharmacist in UHK for 8 years having previously worked in the NHS. Since October 2014 Emma has been an integral member of the Medication Workstream for the MN-CMS project. Emma assisted in the development of the drug catalogue, developed local care plans, provided medication training to over 300 staff across various disciplines, was part of the excitement of initial roll out in CUMH and was the local lead pharmacist for roll out in UHK.

Currently Emma is involved in the optimisation of the MN-CMS system to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines. Emma collaborates with the National Medication Workstream on a weekly basis and acts as the main point of contact for local end users for medication related issues.

Emma delivers training and education to medical and nursing staff to ensure optimal system use of the system and she provides a Clinical service to the Maternity and Neonatal units in UHK and promotes the use of National guidelines and policies to ensure a standardised level of care for all patients.

Emma finds the diverse role extremely rewarding and enjoys working with such a positive, enthusiastic and proactive group of people.

“Each day is a new learning day”. 

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Brian has recently taken up the role of Chief II Informatics Pharmacist with the MN-CMS National Back Office. Brian is responsible for providing technical and clinical leadership in order to optimise the use of the MN-CMS system for both users and stakeholders at the current sites and to ensure a smooth transition for future sites.

The focus for the Chief II Informatics Pharmacist will be to act as the lead for the Medications Workstream within the National Back Office dealing with national level business as usual, change control and future development processes relating to medications.

Brian has over 10 years’ experience working as a Pharmacist in both the private and public sector, with 5 of these involved in development and delivery of clinical informatics projects. Brian is looking forward to supporting the continued development of MN-CMS and the delivery of the system to future sites. 

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Gwen is the Chief Medical Scientist / National Lab Order Comms Workstream Lead for the MN-CMS programme. Gwen provides technical and clinical leadership for the design, implementation and maintenance of all Diagnostic Laboratory aspects of MN-CMS. Gwen started working on the MN-CMS project in 2015 as part of the local hospital Laboratory implementation team, and joined national MN-CMS team in 2016 as Senior Medical Scientist.

Gwen leads the Lab Order Comms Workstream in national level business as usual, change management, and future development processes; and the design and implementation of Laboratory aspects of the EHR in future hospitals. She works closely with the diagnostic laboratories in each site to ensure optimal integration between the EHR and the Laboratory Information System (LIS).

Gwen has worked as a Medical Scientist in HSE diagnostic laboratories since qualifying in 2006. She also has a postgraduate MSc in Biomedical Science specialising in Haematology. Since 2014, Gwen has extensive experience in the development and delivery of a number of Laboratory Informatics and Laboratory Information Systems integration projects.

Gwen is looking forward to being part of the continued support and development of MN-CMS, and the delivery of a national EHR for all women and babies in Maternity services throughout the country. 

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Joan joined the MN-CMS National Project Team in 2012 as Business Implementation Manager and is currently responsible for leading the Maternity and Gynaecology workstreams.  The focus of the work stream lead is to provide professional / clinical leadership, driving the workstream ensuring activities are aligned with the project plan and to act as the main point of contact for the work stream between the National Project Team, the Local Project Manager & the National Back Office.  

Joan is a Registered General Nurse and Midwife and has over 20 years' experience in clinical practice, holding a variety of clinical posts including CMM3.  She acted as Project Midwife for the National Maternity Healthcare Record and also spent three years in the Quality and Patient Safety Directorate with responsibility for delivery of national guidance on post mortem examinations and clinicial audit.  She has been a member of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland-Nursing Midwifery Group since 2007.

Joan looks forward to supporting the implementation of MN-CMS in every maternity unit nationally. 

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Aileen has been a member of the MN-CMS National Project team since 2014. She was appointed as the Clinical Lead in the MN-CMS National Back office under the auspices of the Women’s and Infants Programme in May 2018.

In this role Aileen is responsible for the Clinical support of the Electronic chart for mothers and babies. This includes tasks such as supporting adoption and optimisation, developing clinical reporting, testing system upgrades and general day to day support of the electronic chart within Maternity and Gynaecology services.

Aileen is a Registered General Nurse and Midwife for over 20 years. She trained and worked overseas where she was involved in Hospital and Community Midwifery. This is where she first learned the importance of all the multidisciplinary team being involved in the care of mothers and the baby.

Returning to Ireland and working in Midwifery services in Ireland her role moved to computer Information systems for Maternity care while supporting and reporting from an Obstetric Management system.

Aileen is looking forward to developing her role in the MN-CMS National Back office and working with the National Project Team in supporting each of the 19 Maternity Sites in achieving the common goal of a National Electronic Health Record (EHR) for all women and babies in maternity services in Ireland. 

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Orla is the National NICU Workstream Lead for the MN-CMS Project. Orla provides clinical leadership to the design and implementation of MN CMS across all Neonatal Units in the country. Orla began working on the project in 2015 with responsibility for design, testing and implementation of the Neonatal EHR. Orla was the MN-CMS Local System Administrator in CUMH, Cork supporting the entire site for Maternity and Neonatal before joining the National team in July 2018.

Orla is a Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse with some extensive clinical experience having worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and Cork University Maternity Hospital. Orla is committed to assisting in the safe delivery of care to all newborns in the country. 

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Tom has recently taken up the role of Clinical Engineering Workstream Lead with the MN-CMS Team. He will have a key role in Clinical Engineering and BMDI related issues and also in supporting other Workstreams.

Tom has over 15 years’ experience working in Clinical Engineering in the HSE, including assisting with the rollout and development of The Kidney Disease Clinical Patient Management System (KDCPMS) in CUH.

Prior to working in the HSE Tom worked in the private sector for Motorola as an Integrated Circuit Design Engineer.

Tom is looking forward to supporting the continued development of the MN-CMS program and the delivery of the system to future sites.” 

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Ellen is a Senior Medical Scientist with over 20 years’ experience and has joined the MN-CMS to support the function of the MN-CMS National Back Office and National Project Team to facilitate optimal support to the system, its users and stakeholders.

She has worked in the National Virus Reference Laboratory and the Rotunda. Ellen’s 18 years in the Rotunda Microbiology Department gave her valuable insight into Maternity and Gynaecology services from a laboratory perspective, and she became involved in Lab Order Comms for the department in 2018 after The Rotunda went live with MN-CMS in late 2017.

Having experienced both the pandemic and cyber attack Ellen saw how valuable and vital the EHR is for patient care and all users and looks forward to the continued implementation of MN-CMS. 

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