What -7 years away from delivering a comprehensive electronic health record system for all citizens to replace traditional paper-based records. Who is in charge/responsible?

Is it the Minister? Is it the CEO? Hmm…. surely we could blame the Agency Cat.

The HSE is roughly seven years away from delivering a comprehensive electronic health record system for all citizens to replace traditional paper-based records.

In 2004…yes 2004..…Patients can expect improved and safer care under the new blueprint, which will modernise the gathering and use of health information, Health Minister Micheal Martin said. “AN ELECTRONIC healthcare record for all patients, allowing a range of information on their medical history to be automatically called upon, is promised under a new health plan launched yesterday“.

Now 2024.….An electronic healthcare record in 7 years? EHRs are currently standard of care in all developed western countries. A range of tried and tested commercial solutions have been available for a long time now. In 7 years, it will be 27 years since

An oncologist(Michael Mc Carthy on X):….”The amount of time I spend every day logging in and out of 10 separate computer systems would boggle anyones mind. When I arrived in Mayo this morning, I had to enter my username and password 7 times to get into evolve. As a conservative estimate, I probably entered usernames and passwords about 50-60 times over the rest of the day. Hard to imagine, but true.”

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