Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Electronic Health Records: Discussion
Mr. Fran Thompson:
I will try to comment on some of those points. I will start with the integrated health identifier, IHI. We are in the process of rolling out the IHI. We have had the IHI index for a number of years. I will give some examples of numbers. The primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, has approximately 9 million IHIs, including medical cards, GP visit cards, drug repayments, long-term illness, and the hi-tech. National screening has approximately 4.6 million IHIs, cutting across CervicalCheck, BreastCheck, renal and bowel screening. The national schools immunisation programme has approximately 1.5 million. We are really working through these. On the Covid-19 side, 5 million IHIs were provided. GPs on public practice were provided with IHIs towards the end of the year and we are working----
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