Results 21,741-21,760 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: They are operating on the basis of hospital numbers at this stage. When does Mr. O'Connor expect all health facilities will move to the IHI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Once all facilities take on the IHI, does that mean that all other identifying systems will be abolished?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: So the full system will have two numbers, the PPSN and the IHI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Who is producing the IHIs at the moment? Who is responsible for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I take it the PPSN is not embedded in the IHI, similar to our bank -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: How many IHIs have been produced already?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: But percentage wise?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is there an IHI for everybody in the country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: How many of them have been assigned to different health facilities? What is the percentage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is there a legal requirement for health facilities to transition to the IHI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What was the GP able to call up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am sorry but I do not know why it was not simplified down so that we all start to use PPSN.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why was that decision not taken? Forget all the other multiple systems and just start with the PPSN.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I appreciate all the historic stuff but if we are now going to move towards a modern EU health system, why would we not simplify the whole thing and say that from now on everybody uses their PPSN?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is trying to justify mistakes that were made in the past.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Given that we are so behind with the IHI why do we not just forget about it? I cannot understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. O'Connor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I wish to ask a brief question on anonymised data. There are protections through the NHIA but I take it that the Department of Health and the HSE will not have to go through that authority to access those anonymised data. There are RHAs. There should be straightforward access.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I take it that there is no requirement for health authorities to get permission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Someone mentioned the frustration with parliamentary questions and how a great deal of data are not available. Let us say I tabled a parliamentary question about the incidence of diabetes in the greater Dublin area. Presumably, the Department would not have to go through the authority to get permission to respond to that question. Can the Department continue to access whatever health data...