Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Electronic Health Records: Discussion

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

All of that is in Mr. Thompson's opening statement. I am only quoting what he said. It is not my language, even though I agree with what he has said. He said that our technology and e-health solutions need to be radically overhauled and that our system is being held back because we do not have those integrated IT solutions, electronic patient record systems and all of those systems that should be up and running. When people hear about something being in the process of being rolled out, these are issues we have been talking about for decades and we are still in the process of rolling them out. I do not know how long that is going to take. From my understanding of it, I assume it will not be done any time soon anyway. I am saying to Mr Thompson using his own words that we have a long road to travel. Would he accept that? It is going to take time to get to a place where we-----

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