Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion
9:30 am
Ms Eil?sh Hardiman:
We explored this. It is not feasible to retrofit the electronic healthcare system into the existing children's hospitals and then bring it across. That would be four different implementations. It is not viable. What we have is what is being done with this system internationally. EPIC has been procured, has a very good success rate at implementation and goes from paper to electronic. What we are doing is not just around the electronic healthcare record. We are also looking at our corporate systems and other systems. As much as possible, we are bringing in the systems that will be in the children's hospital, bedding them in now and just going across with them. However, the electronic healthcare record is such a big implementation it will go from paper to electronic healthcare by the time of the opening of the hospital