Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE

Mr. Derek Tierney:

On what has changed since 2018, we have trebled our investment in e-health, capital investment and revenue investment to a total of €345 million. That excludes €160 million used for ordinary subscription licences, telephony and mobile phones. We have trebled the number of staff working in the ICT area of the health service from a base of 365 in 2019 to more than 850 in 2023. If we look back at the 2018 Sláintecare implementation strategy, it stated there were three key priorities to progress. The first was to deploy EHR in the children's hospital before a broader and wider acute roll-out. The second was to understand the design requirement for community-based systems. The third was to implement and widen the national maternity system. We can report today that we are deploying EHR in the children's hospital. There are lots of-----