Irish Health IT & Burnout

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...

Converting EHRs to plain text lets general-purpose LLMs match specialized foundation models on 15 clinical prediction tasks without accessing private...

NHS England is prioritising EPR-integrated ambient voice technology over standalone tools in its £10bn investment, citing major workflow failures when...

Irish health-tech leaders highlight real excitement around AI-enabled modernisation tied to Sláintecare's integrated care vision.

• Data platforms...

Multiple service innovations under the Community Pharmacy Agreement 2025 are advancing this summer.

• Common Conditions Service data collection...