Whitfield originally trained as a radiographer in South Africa, but she has lived in Ireland for the last 20 years. Most of her clinical years were spent working in a pediatric hospital in Dublin, where she specialized in MRI.

"While there, we transitioned from a film-based department to getting PACS. Our PACS procurement was part of a national project/installation. About six months after our go-live, I went to work for the PACS vendor Change Healthcare as a PACS implementation consultant," she noted.

More recently her roles have been in management, but with an oversight/input on the digital/systems side. She has also worked on the national PACS project.