Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare
Future of Health Care: eHealth Ireland
9:00 am
Ms Yvonne Goff:
Part of that is a cultural change as, for instance, we carried out the same process with radiology reporting. That was going out through Healthlink, which is the same process as we have for the referrals. As GPs were not comfortable with not receiving a paper report for a long time, we spent significant time on a communication plan and building up to a time when we ceased printing reports and over six months, there was a saving of €150,000 based on that. It was through communication and working with the GPs in particular that they became comfortable with moving into this environment.
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