Clare was voted CIO of the Year 2023 (non-profit) and is currently a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and Managing Director of HD Health. Her company provides digital health, compliance and clinical advisory services specialising in digital transformation, business development, process optimisation and medical device software compliance. Clare also works as Programme Director for the Leading Digital Health Transformation programme at RCSI. She also provides services to fulfil the role of Chief Commercial Officer at Infocare Healthcare, a state of the art clinical workflow solution provider internationally, where she also holds a position as a Non Executive Director. She also advises on RPA and Intelligent Automation opportunities across the public and private sector in partnership with ABP Innovation.
Clare was previously Executive Director, Digital Health Transformation at HealthTech Ireland, the trade association representing the digital health, diagnostics and medtech industries. Prior to this, Clare worked in various senior digital health and governance roles across industry and the health service, in the Department of Health, HIQA, and the HSE as the National Programme Manager for the acute medicine programme.
Clare holds a Bachelor of Business Information Systems and an MSc in Health Informatics from Trinity College, Dublin. She is involved in the EU Commission funded EIT Health mentorship programme mentoring early stage digital health companies, and also her alumni mentorship programme, mentoring students and recent graduates with an interest in the digital health space.