David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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This is important for us when we look at the health service in general and wider integration, which we will discuss in more detail with the HSE later. The witnesses referred to integrating IT systems. This is very important for sharing patient data. What have been the challenges with the systems speaking to each other, given that six distinct organisations with their own systems are involved here? We see it in responses to parliamentary questions whereby data is sometimes not captured or is not collated centrally Different systems do different things. How difficult was this and how much work is being done to try to better integrate it?