Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise one final issue, which is the digitalisation of the HSE. Many of the delays in accident and emergency departments occur because a person was in hospital three or four months ago and doctors are trying to get access to his or her file to see what was decided three or four months ago. For instance, in Cork, a person in an emergency who went Cork University Hospital and to the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in a 12-month time period would have a paper file in each of those hospitals. Martin Curley, who has stepped down from the HSE, has asked where we are going with the digitalisation and computerisation of records so that medical practitioners and nurses can get information on patients with the press of a button instead of trying to source a paper file.

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