Mr. Derek Tierney:

We have asked where we would like to get to ultimately and how we can get there in a stepped way. Earlier this year we launched a HSE patient app, which was about putting information we can currently get access to into the patient's hands so we can start empowering them to take responsibility for themselves and take an interest in their health and well-being.

The second step is to, as I said earlier, mobilise a shared care record, which is about looking to what we have, how we can dip into it, pull it up and connect it in a unified way so that we have a minimum level of information to be able to give back to a patient through the app or through their healthcare-giver, wherever they are in the system. Longer term, we would like to get to an enterprise electronic health record, which would cater for the need of every person on the island and of every healthcare provider who has a stake in providing care for the patient. As I mentioned in response to Deputy Sherlock earlier, one of the intermediate steps, particularly around CAMHS, is how we can exploit existing technology and roll it into primary care community so that we can, for instance, start understanding how we digitise CAMHS, palliative care and other wider primary care services. It is to bring all of that jigsaw together ultimately.