Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Electronic Health Records: Discussion

Dr. Avril Kennan:

I will speak to that question for a moment and then will pass it to Dr. White. I acknowledge from work that I am very familiar with in patient registry, there is generally some short-term pain for long-term gain. We have to be really mindful of our health service staff. They are already under far too much pressure and so that side of it will need to be resourced as well. We heard in this morning's session that in the longer term, health service staff really value things going digital. It is going to make their lives easier in the long run. It is not exactly what the Deputy is asking but another part we have to think about is the conversations with patients very early on in terms of their consent to the whole process, in particularly coming from our perspective, capturing their consent around research. I will hand over to Dr. White to say a bit more on that.

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