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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is the Department working with the HSE on the practical implementation of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I will ask one last question. There is clearly a lot of concern about the sharing of health information and particularly in relation to the information that GPs have. The relationship between a person and a GP is very personal. How does the Department intend to proceed regarding access to that health information, if GPs need to share health information with some central body? Does it have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about that; I am talking about ensuring confidentiality from a patient perspective. We need to ensure that only those at a senior level would have access to that information. Is there a schedule of that? Will, for example, the public health nurse have access to that? Is it a consultant? Is it a hospital manager? How is it determined as to who will have access to that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: However, "health service provider" covers a vast range of people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is what I am asking. Is a schedule set out for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: However, it is anybody providing a service to an individual. Is that what they are saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why did we not just start with everybody using the PPSN? Why are there two systems?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I know there are legacy issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The PPSN is the simplest option, but why not put IHI data on PPSN records, as a back-office exercise? In future, can we all not just operate on the basis of our PPS numbers? Over time, all the health facilities could start to use that instead of a 16-digit number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What is the IPI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When is the new strategy expected to be published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Will there be a price tag with that as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: To return to the identifier I would ask Mr. O'Connor to clarify something. If we all use our PPSN, say I attend a hospital and I provide my PPSN, what happens then on the other side? Will that be linked to the IHI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: But the IHI is not necessarily a standardised system that everyone has one. If I had an IHI in the Mater Hospital and in Beaumont Hospital, for example, it would not necessarily be the same one in both, is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Earlier, Mr. O'Connor had referred to the fact that each facility has its own kind of system.
- 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 -----