Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Electronic communication is an issue. Our problem here is that we have something like 1,700 different computer systems in our health service currently. In Denmark, they have 25 and are working down towards five. I understand that in Denmark there is a patient medication card. If one is in hospital or with a doctor, it is possible to get one's file up from the card and to put the prescription on it. One gets the card back and brings it to the pharmacy which can get the prescription from its computer rather than to have it hand-written. Has that been looked at from an Irish point of view?