Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Electronic Health Records: Discussion

Dr. Avril Kennan:

I acknowledge that there is a group of people working very hard in difficult circumstances. I find it a challenge when I think about the fact that there was a business plan so many years ago that has not been implemented.

Not only was the initiative neither approved nor implemented, but there does not seem to have been any further ongoing persistence around that. We need persistence. This is not an issue that can be ignored. I imagine that the topic of electronic records relates to almost every conversation that members have at this forum, and could strengthen any initiatives in healthcare going forward. I would like to see it considered as a more urgent topic.

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