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:
The shared care record definitely involves integration across all care settings where a person's health information exists. In other words, information relating to GPs, pharmacies and hospitals. There is little data being collected in the community because it is predominantly a paper-based system. We have a plan to create some capability in community care. If we think about it, the electronic health record system in the children's hospital is a full digital record from the time a child is admitted for care for paediatric services until he or she is discharged, whatever his or her condition or need is. It is very deep, and it automates his or her plan. That is the difference. If I was talking about our ambition to implement an electronic health record at national level, I would ask the Deputy to think about the children's hospital but on a national level.
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