The Health Service Executive say they will have Full Digital Health Records by 2019

Full digital health records for Irish patients will be in place by the middle of 2019, the HSE has claimed. The HSE also announced that it will have electronic records for patients with epilepsy, haemophilia and bipolar disorder this year. The e-health records will cut down on paper records and allow better access to records for doctors.

Richard Corbridge, chief information officer of the HSE, said that full digital patient records should be in place in four years' time. "The plan is to have it in the middle of 2019," he said.

"The first site that will go live with an electronic health record will be the National Children's Hospital. Between now and the National Children's Hospital being born digital, we intend to make different therapy areas electronic. So we've announced the ability to move haemophilia, epilepsy and bipolar disorder in 2016, so they have a fully electronic health record across that whole therapy area."

Source: www.breakingnews.ie

Commentary

This is a great step forward for the HSE but we have doubts about their ability to deliver. We tried to contact them so that we could submit our interest but have yet to hear from them. After all it is our area of expertise and we work across multiple markets implementing systems so you think they would be interested in what we do? Alas it seems not, the consultative approach is selective and closed and the so-called launch in the Digital Hub did not even include invites for Digital Health companies in situ! Some things don’t change. I suspect they have consulted with large ‘consultant houses’ who will only outsource, but still will charge a fortune. Time will tell on delivery…