Irish Health IT & Burnout

Palantir's £330m NHS contract faces mounting calls for termination over slow, clunky software with shockingly low usage — 54 of 139 trusts never...

WHO/Europe and Portugal co-host a high-level conference on AI in health, focusing on turning political commitments into coordinated, equity-oriented...

Ireland's new HSE National Endoscopy Reporting System (Solus) is rolling out to 38 sites to standardise reports, enable real-time audit and integrate...

An independent ambulance provider reduced administrative workload by up to 80 hours per month after switching from paper Patient Report Forms to...

Irish EHR Rollouts

• 🔥 Cavan Maternity System: A new electronic health record system (MN-CMS) is being introduced at Cavan General Hospital to...

Cavan General Hospital's new Maternal and Newborn Clinical Management System will give clinicians real-time access to patient information, cutting...

An Irish acute hospital study found 86.3% of patients satisfied with virtual outpatient clinics, especially nurse-led ones, while nurses highlighted...

A cyberattack has hit the issuance of plastic medical cards, underscoring ongoing operational strain on patient-facing HSE services and raising wider questions about health data security and system resilience in Ireland's digital health rollout.

LLM-generated one-liner summaries outperformed physician-authored versions across accuracy (4.18 vs 3.40), completeness, and clinical utility in a...

NHS England’s three-year £10bn AI programme targets triage tools, ambient transcription and a fully digital hospital to cut waits and streamline...

WHO's support for the new Open Health Stack Software Foundation reinforces FHIR and open standards as the foundation for interoperable, sustainable...

• NHS England is rolling out integrated ambient voice technology nationally as part of its £10bn tech commitment, automating real-time clinical...

• Learning health system focus: VA embedded research and transparency into its national EHR transition to drive continuous improvement.
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Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill declined to provide costings for lowering the Drug Payment Scheme threshold, citing “many challenges” in...

• National EHR milestone: Cavan General Hospital prepares to implement MN-CMS, Ireland’s maternity electronic health record already supporting 62% of...

Med-SMART is examining medical workforce staffing, skill mix, roles and working arrangements in Irish hospitals and their effects on patient care,...

National EHR Governance Questions

• 🔥 Health Data Control: The Irish Times op-ed questions who will ultimately control Ireland's national...

• Harsh reality: Patients endure waits of up to 709 weeks for community services like dietetics, with 298,421 on lists as of March.
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Ireland's national EHR rollout risks repeating NHS pitfalls unless it optimises workflows before digitisation. The VOD model bridges deployment and...

Digital health records are clinical instruments, not filing cabinets, warns Conor Shields, as Ireland procures its national EHR. The op-ed stresses...