Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive

2:00 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

They will talk to each other, yes. We have done things like agreeing a national health identifier, which is the PPS we are rolling out across all services at the moment in advance of electronic health records. All of these systems are being designed so they interact. As I said to one of the Deputies, we already have one of our successes. There is our national imaging system. If a young child in Donegal has a head injury, that can be read in Beaumont immediately and a decision made to transfer or not. The last public hospitals going live on that before the end of the year are St. Vincent's hospital and then two other hospitals, Galway and Cork, which are on a different platform, will be integrated. That will give us probably our first major clinical national system with full coverage. There should be a record-----

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