Dr. Aileen O'Reilly:

This is very important. We cannot build a house without a good foundation so citizen access is critical. AI in healthcare holds enormous promise for treatment plans and early diagnosis. We have some good examples in the HSE. Many of us were probably at the HSE integrated care conference. Somebody there is leading AI in the organisation and spoke about good examples of AI, such as the Spark programme, and how AI has helped to improve productivity, which is now a focus in the health service. We have already mentioned our tool, which has supported us to deliver more of our visitation support and befriending service. We already have good examples of how it could support us.