Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals

9:00 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

We have made improvements along the way. It takes a long time to take a project as big as this through public procurement, but in the meantime we have upgraded what we might call the HSE's corporate reporting system. That assists us in taking data from all the different voluntary agencies that give us data and from our own legacy systems. That was done in the last six to nine months. On the western seaboard we have also installed the SAP ECC 6.0 system in both the mid-west and north west statutory areas and in Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin. We refer to that as "stabilisation", but those are entities of between €300 million and €400 million, between €700 million and €800 million and €140 million, respectively. Those are quite big implementation projects. Those three upgrades have been done. More and more of the HSE is now on a single system. We have also improved the system that draws the data. However, it is still not what we need, which is a single integrated-----

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