Health
‘No financial allocation’ for e-health means system to be paper-based until 2025
TDs told high cost of rolling out electronic health records means HSE does not have an approved business case
There is still “no financial allocation” for a national rollout of digital health records, politicians have been told, meaning the HSE is likely to be using paper systems until at least 2025.
At a meeting of the public accounts committee (PAC) this morning, officials from the Department of Health said that implementing electronic healthcare records (EHR) across the country would cost more than €1 billion if carried out nationally.
The national children’s hospital has completed ...