Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

A digital hospital means that the hospital has all of its medical and clinical notes digitally stored. The procurement process at the moment is for CHI to have electronic healthcare records in the hospital and the two paediatric outpatient and urgent care centres. It is acknowledged that it will need to interface with other systems across the healthcare system. The original intention was to have a national system, but it would not have been progressed in time for the children's hospital. Therefore, a decision was made in 2019 to proceed with the CHI electronic healthcare record. That includes all of a patient's clinical details from when he or she comes in, including e-referrals right the way through.