Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society

9:30 am

Professor Brendan McAdam:

Obviously, if there was an electronic medical record, which will take time to bed down, that would be very helpful, because when the data is collected, registry data can be automatically populated in a parallel system. There is a survey by the ESC called the Euro Heart survey on valvular heart disease, which we believe might be funded initially this year as part of the budget. That would allow us to start the project and roll it out in the south-south west area to see if this is a method we can use in our system to collect data, but we do need an actual strategy.