Healthcare IT news in brief
This week’s healthcare news round-up delves into a progress on e-referrals in Ireland, how doctors are getting involved in healthcare social media platforms, and some clever tech from Lincolnshire.
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Healthcare IT news in brief
Ireland details €875m EHR plans
Ireland is planning to spend up to €875 (£700m) on building an electronic health record over the next five to nine years.
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Members flock to Ireland’s CCIO council
Ireland’s Council of Clinical Information Officers has 145 members from 35 disciplines and is pushing to formalise the role across the country.
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Ireland consults public on identifier
Ireland’s Health Service Executive has launched a public consultation on the privacy implications of creating a unique health identifier, similar to the NHS Number.
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Ireland races to implement health IT
Ireland has created an Individual Health Identifier for all patients and implemented an e-referral system in half of all its hospitals, over the past six months
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Irish hospital plans records access
A hospital in Ireland plans to give patients access to their medical records by this time next year.
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Ireland plans five year e-health journey
Ireland’s chief information officer for health, Richard Corbridge, has issued a ‘Knowledge and Information Strategy’ to transform the country’s health services using e-health.
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Corbridge steps up as Irish health CIO
Richard Corbridge has told EHI he will use the lessons he learned from the English National Programme for IT in his new role as the first chief information officer for Ireland’s health service.
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Tech city, Dundalk style
Lis Evenstad visits a smart block of flats in Ireland that may be a prototype living environment for the elderly populations of the future.
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