Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I thank Mr. Gunning. I would like to move on to Ms Hardiman's opening statement in which she discussed the electronic health record. Can she elaborate on that? I want to understand what the electronic record procurement process entails. Is it something that follows the patient from healthcare facility to healthcare facility or is it specific to the children's hospital? In other hospital projects around the world on entry to a building a full IT propriety system follows a patient. Could she elaborate on exactly what that means?

She referred to the hospital in a number of places in her statement as a digital hospital. I am trying to understand what that means and where we are in the process of commissioning those kind of proprietary systems.