The Irish Well being Service Government (HSE) has launched a framework setting out tips on how to digitally rework well being companies within the nation, together with plans to roll out a affected person app and nationwide shared care report.
‘Digital for Care: A Digital Well being Framework for Eire 2024-2030’, revealed on 21 Might 2024, pronounces plan to launch a affected person app to “empower sufferers by giving them broader entry to their very own well being data” including that it’s going to “present entry to extra digital well being companies, together with digital care choices, while enabling better autonomy and selection over their care choices”.
The app is deliberate to permit sufferers to view their well being information together with appointments, prescriptions, take a look at outcomes, and scans.
It should additionally embody digital credentials comparable to a digital model of the European medical insurance card medical card, GP go to card, a MyHealthID, proof of vaccination such because the digital covid certificates, and the seasonal flu vaccine.
The digital framework additionally highlights plans to finish procurement for the know-how platform to ship a nationwide shared care report in 2025, adopted by long term deployment of digital well being information (EHR).
In a press release revealed on 21 Might 2024, Stephen Donnelly, Eire’s minister for well being, mentioned that the brand new digital framework “units out a transparent ambition for the longer term”.
He added: “Via successive budgets, authorities has constantly elevated each capital and income funding for digital well being.
“The well being service now has an formidable forward-looking digital pipeline to ship on the imaginative and prescient of this strategic framework.”
A spokesperson for the HSE, which supplies public well being and social care companies to everybody dwelling in Eire, instructed Digital Well being Information {that a} tender for the shared care report is ongoing and can conclude within the ultimate quarter of 2024.
“EHR will change paper-based well being information with a complete medical report in digital type.
“This represents an entire digital report of a affected person’s journey, all through their life, throughout all well being and social care settings, for each citizen.
“The deployment of EHR for everybody utilizing well being companies in Eire is a long-term funding programme with programs to be deployed by every of the six new well being areas throughout the acute, neighborhood, and first care well being settings,” the spokesperson mentioned.
They added that EHRs have already been authorized and deployed at 4 maternity hospitals: Cork College Maternity Hospital, Kerry College Hospital, Nationwide Maternity Hospital, and Rotunda, and at St. James Hospital Dublin, the Nationwide Forensic Psychological Well being Service (previously Central Psychological Hospital), and the Nationwide Rehabilitation Hospital.
Additionally, the mentioned that EHRs are at the moment being applied at College Hospital Limerick and Coombe, that are attributable to go stay Q1 2025 and Q2 2025.
The framework says that “in parallel with the nationwide shared care report, we should proceed to put money into core scientific data programs and speed up funding within the giant enterprise EHR programs, just like these already deployed at St James Hospital, at our giant maternity hospitals and procured for the brand new Nationwide Youngsters’s Hospital”.
Different deliberate digital initiatives outlined within the framework embody scaling using digital care initiatives as a viable scientific intervention, widening using robotic course of automation to the administration of ready lists, and commencing procurement of an answer for nationwide digital prescribing.
The HSE has additionally pledged to proceed to construct cyber resilience by way of the implementation of suggestions of the submit incident report following a ransomware assault in 2021.
In 2023, HSE was sufferer of the MOVEit provide chain cyber assault launched in opposition to doc switch service MOVEit.