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HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE

Year founded

TITLE : DIRECTOR OF THE DIGITAL ACADEMY AND OPEN INNOVATION

INDUSTRY : HEALTHCARE LOCATION : IRELAND

that it had to begin slowly . " Our first efforts were to create a digital academy to start building digital capability and capacity in the Irish health service . Working with eight Irish universities , we co-designed and launched a Masters in Digital Health Transformation . We used a paradigm called design science research , where instead of students writing a 30,000-word dissertation , they actually have to develop and deliver a digital change project ."

This approach has had remarkable success , as in the first year , 18 out of the 20 projects delivered were found to be viable and are either fully implemented or in development .

Given that Ireland lags behind OECD countries in terms of digitalising , Curley and his team developed a Leap Frog strategy to move the healthcare system forwards . " Many countries have installed monolithic electronic health records into their hospitals

Martin Curley is Director of the

Digital Academy and Open Innovation at the Health Service Executive ( HSE ), helping enable the digital transformation of Ireland ’ s health service . Most recently Martin was Chief Information Officer ( CIO ) at the HSE . Prior to joining the HSE Martin was Senior Vice President and group head for Global Digital Practice at Mastercard . Previously Martin was Vice President at Intel Corporation and Director / GM of Intel Labs Europe , Intel ’ s network of more than 50 research labs which he help grow across the European region . He also served as a senior principal engineer at Intel Labs Europe leading Intel ’ s research and innovation engagement with the European Commission and the broader European Union research ecosystem . Prior to this Curley was Global Director of IT Innovation and Director of IT Strategy and Technology at Intel . Earlier in his Intel career , he held a number of senior positions for Intel in the United States and Europe . He also worked in research and management positions at GE in Ireland and Philips in the Netherlands .