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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am conscious that we are finishing at 11.20 a.m. If I do not get members in, I will bring those members in first for the next round of speakers. I call Senator Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: In the opening statement, it was stated that 400 people are working in the IT system in the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: How many are working in the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: The HSE had a workforce of 156,000 in December. Is there a gross under-representation of IT support?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: A staff of 156,000 seems an awful lot within the system. As someone looking in from the outside, it strikes me that support is under-represented. How many machines in the health service are still running on operating systems past end-of-life support? This came up previously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: I do not understand. Is it 5% or 2%? How many machines are there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: Does that figure refer to machines running on operating systems past end-of-life support?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: One of the big challenges is around radiology. There was big concern regarding that. Are those machines still operating on systems that are ending?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: I apologise to anyone who did not get an opportunity to comment such as Senator Kyne who has been here since the beginning of the meeting. I thank the representatives of the HSE for providing assistance on this important matter to the committee. The debate has been useful and I thank them for their engagement. This debate has been very insightful and we got a sense of the challenges that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: I welcome Dr. Avril Kennan, CEO, Ms Suzanne McCormack, chair, and CEO of the Irish Thoracic Society; and Dr. Mark White, vice president for research, innovation and graduate studies in SETU Waterford, from Health Research Charities Ireland. I invite Dr. Kennan to make her opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Dr. Kennan very much. It was very useful to start off with the example she gave of the woman in the midlands who has her own electronic record. There is another takeaway for people listening at home. If anyone is getting cancer or other treatment, he or she should take a photograph of his or her prescription. It is usually the one thing people are asked about and it is panic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: Does Dr. McCormack have anything to add?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: To follow on in respect of the European element, we have these different systems and we heard this morning how some of them clearly do not talk to each other or share information. Are some of the systems we are operating, say in the west of Ireland or the children's hospital element, be capable of sharing that information? Is it just a matter of tweaking the current systems? If we had the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: Patient identifiers are key here, that is a common thread. Going back to the issue of sharing information, the one bugbear a lot of families have at the moment in the context of Covid, RSV and so on, particularly if someone is elderly but not only then, within the hospital system it is not possible to accompany someone in through the accident and emergency department. There was mention of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: We did not really get an opportunity to talk about the issue of allergies, or people who are on Warfarin, blood thinners so on, and the dangers around that. I have been in a Coroner's Court hearing where it was on the file not to give the patient a particular medicine but it was not adhered to. I would like to think that if there was an electronic system, it would be coming up in red...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: Unfortunately, we have run out of time. I think everyone sees the logic of having a digitised system. We would all agree that it is good and that we need the system, and so on. The frustrating thing that we heard this morning is that, in some cases, we are actually at the starting line, which is very worrying. I give a commitment that we will return to this. It has been suggested that we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Crowe: 656. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for assistive communication devices to be supplied to non-verbal children diagnosed with autism; the reason the parents of such a child (details supplied) were informed that it would be at least nine months due to red tape; his views on whether such communication devices should be provided as soon after diagnosis as possible and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 24 and 25 January 2023 have been circulated to members. Are they agreed for consideration? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to consider the matter of services for the treatment of cancer, in particular waiting lists for such treatment. The committee will be joined separately by representatives from the Irish Cancer Society and the HSE. For the first part of the meeting, I welcome Ms Averil Power, chief executive officer of the Irish Cancer Society, and Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Seán Crowe: I should have mentioned at the start how the system usually works. Normally, each individual who comes in gets ten minutes and it is questions and answers within that period. That is how it normally goes. However, some ask a number of questions together while others ask questions individually. Some even make statements and do not ask any questions.