HSE Chief Information Officer Fran Thompson told the Oireachtas Committee on Health that the health service is being held back with inefficient, and often paper-based patient interactions, with a patient's presence required due to the lack of tools rather than the patient need.
He told the committee that the current system lacks access to timely, accurate and robust data, essential to informing decision making and that electronic health records will reduce medical errors and provide for a more efficient service. He said that in an ideal world, the patient contributes to the record with data they generate, for example home blood pressure monitors. Part of the original national Electronic Health Record proposal, which was not approved, was to deploy a patient/clinical portal.
Good for a cyberattack so. Like that never happened before. Or did it?
Eh….privacy?