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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Seán Crowe: Thank you very much Mr. Thompson. I will now invite committee members and other Members of the Houses to discuss matters with the witnesses. Deputy Durkan is first and I understand he is on the Leinster House campus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Cathal Crowe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Seán Crowe: Would it be helpful if the committee were to try to make some sense of the 2018 decision by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Seán Crowe: We can ask.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Seán Crowe: I was just about to suggest that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Seán Crowe: I do not wish to delay the meeting but it would be useful to get a written response first. If we decide we need to bring in those officials on the basis of a written response, we certainly should do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Seán Crowe: That is agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Seán Crowe: I will move on.
- 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?