Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive

2:00 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

There are multiple patient administration systems in hospitals, which is one of the issues. We are deploying a single system across the country in advance of the electronic health record. This is very well advanced now, with probably about 75% of our hospitals on that system. In Beaumont Hospital, for example, which I know was with the committee, the system is 35 years old. It just upgraded two weekends ago. We have put in a standard two-way texting system, which will integrate with the system so there is no manual intervention in the middle. I would say about 20 of the hospitals are on that, and the plan is to extend it out from there.

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