Jinish Rajan
Assistant Director of Nursing · Founder, WebEngineer.ie
20 years in healthcare, including 12 years in clinical leadership — and the engineering background to build the software that follows from it. Most healthcare technology fails in the gap between people who understand the clinical need and people who understand the code. I work in that gap.
Background
I am a nurse by profession and have spent 20 years in healthcare, including 12 years in clinical leadership, currently as an Assistant Director of Nursing in an acute academic hospital. That is the part of my background that decides everything else: I have spent my working life on the receiving end of clinical software, including the systems that do not work.
Alongside it I hold two master's degrees, a Level 8 Higher Diploma in Software Development and a UCD Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Informatics. In practice that means I can specify, architect and lead the delivery of a healthcare system rather than only describe what it ought to do — and I can read the standards documents that most procurement conversations quietly skip.
That combination is rarer than it should be, and it is the reason most health tech projects disappoint. Clinicians know what is needed and cannot specify it. Engineers can build anything and are handed requirements nobody clinical ever reviewed. The translation layer between them is where the money is lost.
Qualifications
The clinical side and the engineering side are both formally qualified, which is the part of this that is unusual. Every award below is listed publicly on my LinkedIn profile and can be checked there.
- Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Informatics University College Dublin 2025–2026
- Higher Diploma in Software Development (Level 8) Dublin City University 2021–2023
- MSc in Leadership in Healthcare (Leading Care II) Irish Management Institute / University College Cork 2019–2021
- MSc in Cardiovascular Nursing Trinity College Dublin 2015–2017
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences 2003–2007
What I work on
The consulting work sits at the intersection of clinical operations, health data standards and software delivery.
Healthcare digital strategy
EHDS readiness, interoperability roadmaps and the awkward middle ground where a regulation has to become a working system. Written and advised on from inside clinical operations rather than from a consultancy deck.
FHIR and HL7 interoperability
HL7 FHIR R4, SNOMED CT coding and the electronic discharge summary problem — the standards that decide whether two clinical systems can actually talk to each other, and what it costs when they cannot.
Software architecture and delivery
Specifying, architecting and leading the build of custom software, from data model to deployment. The technical judgement to know which parts are hard and the clinical context to know which parts matter.
Clinical workflow and data
Turning the manual workaround into a measurable process. Dashboards and reporting that answer a question somebody actually has to decide on, rather than displaying whatever the system exports.
Building and research
FHIRO
A FHIR-based platform in development, aimed at the gap in electronic discharge summary standardisation so that Irish providers can meet EHDS interoperability requirements.
Academic research
Completed as postgraduate research rather than as commercial delivery — the distinction matters, so it is stated plainly.
Machine learning for personalised medicine
Academic projectPredictive models and ODE-based modelling for individualised treatment, with a decision-support dashboard built on top of them.
Medical imaging segmentation
Academic projectSegmentation models for MRI knee imaging and for fetal imaging.
Work carried out in the course of clinical employment — internal tooling, reporting and workflow systems — is not shown here. It belongs to the organisations it was built for.
Writing
I write about the regulation and the standards reshaping Irish healthcare technology — the European Health Data Space, HL7 FHIR, electronic discharge summaries — from the position of someone who has to live with the result.
Get in touch
For healthcare digital strategy, interoperability work or a second opinion on a system somebody is trying to sell you.
Related guides
- EHDS readiness reviews
The advisory engagements: EHDS readiness reviews, interoperability roadmaps and a second opinion on a clinical system somebody is trying to sell you.
- FHIR & HL7 integration work
Where the consulting turns into code — FHIR and HL7 integration work, clinical dashboards and patient-facing builds.
- Custom web application development
The same architectural work outside healthcare, for organisations that need a system specified and led rather than a website.
- Healthcare technology consultant
The shape of the healthcare practice in one place — what is changing under EHDS, how engagements start, and five questions worth asking any clinical software vendor.