Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed)
Mr. Muiris O'Connor:
The legislation provides for specific items of information on everyone's summary care record. They will be provided digitally. As Mr. Thompson said, the GPs are have reasonably good IT capability at the moment relative to the community sector more generally. They probably now hold the key information in digital format. We will be engaging with them to get that into the system of record nationally for all citizens. I am not sure what happens to the paper. I think key items of information are extracted from it into digital format. I am not sure about the management of the paper beyond that. It is the data and information that is most relevant.
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