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. Muiris O'Connor:

Yes. That is basic and key information, such as blood type, allergies and medicines. It is the kind of thing people would want known about them if they were knocked down on the road and taken to an accident and emergency department. Shared care records and electronic health records are quite similar. The shared care record is not just the summary template, which is the summary record, but the ability to see that a person got an X-ray somewhere and to be shown the record, so that the X-ray itself and the diagnostics move across sites. The shared care record is the train track that connects information between different sites. It is fuller information beyond the core components in a summary care record. Electronic health records are the full digitisation of a health facility. The children's hospital is the one where this is being deployed now. It is a full database at the heart of the operation. They are usually campus-based specific sites and hold all information on the site.

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