David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Professor McAdam. I see many of the critical issues the witnesses identified are issues common to a lot of areas we are hearing about. One is the lack of comprehensive national registries. That seems to be a problem across a whole range of diseases. Do the witnesses think there would be a step-change in that if we moved to electronic medical records and digitising the health service? We are way behind in that area. We still have a pen-and-paper healthcare service and need to move in this area, but how important is digital transformation in getting us to a place where we have proper registries?