Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health
Mr. Peter Lennon:
Yes. The legislation was enacted in 2014 and we are now in 2023. It has been commenced on a phased basis to allow that to happen. They are required to use it but that is on the proviso that they actually have it. As Mr. O'Connor said, it is that seeding or embedding process. We all have an IHI that was centrally generated by the HSE because it has responsibility under the Health Identifiers Act for doing that. The next stage, which has proven to be complex and challenging, is to seed that into the system. I was at my GP practice two weeks ago where my GP was able to call it up. What was missing from my information was the IHI.
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