Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

The HSE had a plan for a national electronic healthcare record. This was discussed, reviewed and brought to the HSE and Department of Health. They reviewed it and stated that in light of the fact that the building will be with us in a few years, CHI needed to proceed with an electronic healthcare record system. Some of what we will be able to do will provide a greater opportunity because it is a new building rather than a group of existing buildings. We had to take that into account in proceeding with a CHI electronic healthcare record.

The sickest children sometimes come from maternity hospitals. We believe will be able to interface that critical element of care between maternity hospitals that have electronic health records. Internationally, we know there are different electronic health record systems and they are able to demonstrate that they can transfer key and important information between hospitals.