Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Select Committee on Health
Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage
2:00 am
Mr. Derek Tierney:
If we think about a shared care record, the main differentiator is that it is a longitudinal record that starts to connect fragmented records across the system in order to provide a unified view to those who are receiving care and those who are providing it. What we call an enterprise electronic health record, in the first instance, is to provide that level of functionality. Second, at a much deeper level, it is effectively about automating the patient journey in order that from the time a person receives his or her first intervention, the care plan is being automated and planned for at the next level or stage. Let us say that on the basis that we have a full enterprise electronic health record in situ when a person arrives at a GP or even into an accident and emergency department, his or her next steps are already being preplanned. His or her labs are being ordered-----
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