Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Electronic Health Records: Discussion

Mr. Fran Thompson:

I will add one point. There have been well-documented international challenges and disasters, if we can put it that way, with electronic healthcare records. The reason ours have been successful is we have taken some lessons that we have learned there. Much of that is around having a really strong clinical lead and clinical leadership from the very beginning of the programme. We make sure that on the electronic health records, EHR, team there are clinical specialists from all sorts of areas, such as nursing and other specialities within the hospital. We then design, validate, test and deliver the solution set with their colleagues. As Dr. Murphy said, the IT people really are an enabler for that and for making sure that it happens successfully. Ultimately, these are clinically led, clinically delivered programmes of work. They are the ones that have been successful. We can see it even in the tactical solutions we have deployed where we have that clinical leadership and clinical guidance oversight. They are the ones that are successful, and they do not end up being a piece of tin sitting in the corner.

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