Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Emer Campbell:

Healthcare professionals who visit us marvel at the system we have and they are quite envious of it because it ensures safety between different hospitals and different departments. Patients in hospitals often have several different hospital numbers. It is a systemic global approach. Compared with what is happening in the community it is an understatement to say we have a superb medical records system among some of our other IT systems. We look forward to some hospitals and medical services being able to feed into that in future. We get things like Healthlink and we are already able to copy into that. Covid brought us along for swift queue ordering tests. We have linked up with any of the existing infrastructure as appropriate. Obviously, with the safeguards regarding confidentiality and all of that, we simply cannot access-----

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