Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

We will start by building it up by the networks and then we will plug all the networks into one another rather than trying to do it all at once. This is why the maternity facet is being done and so on. What will bring much more benefit in the meantime will be the summary records we will build up about people and the app. This will give people much more control. We know, for example, that people are much more likely to attend appointments or to cancel and not be DNA if they are on an app and their appointments are app-based. It is as simple as that. We are building it and in seven years' time we will be at a current-state EHR system. Our problem then will be the retrospective element, because the question will be how far to go back to load everyone's records. We have millions of them.

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