Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
In general in community services, the time to get to a fully robust system that we might say functions at every level to give us the data and information is probably about three years. In terms of an electronic health record that primary care and community services could feed into, that would be a little bit longer. We are starting with a shared care record, which we hope to have in place in about 18 months. These are all steps to progressing towards the full electronic health record. There are GP referral systems and electronic systems today, but they are not fully integrated in the sense that all professionals working in the community can access them.
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