Irish EHR Pulse-- Dr. Conor

Japan's health ministry will certify cloud-based electronic medical record systems meeting strong cybersecurity standards and offer subsidies for...

Ireland’s One Health Record programme can apply lessons from successful health information system pilots that stress local workforce training, testing...

• TCO reduction: Centralized EHR delivery cuts total ownership costs 20-40% through simplified operations rather than one-off savings.
• Clinician...

The PREVENT equations are now integrated into electronic health records, combining cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic health measures to estimate 10-year and 30-year cardiovascular disease event risk.

A 2025 study examines contextual factors perceived to influence adoption and sustainment of symptom monitoring systems in Republic of Ireland cancer...

Two recent integrations show specialist tools embedding directly in EHR workflows, turning records into real-time clinical assets.

• OpenEvidence at...

Procurement is no longer a back-office purchase—it sets the trust, risk and resilience baseline for every EHR, cloud service and digital system that...

Healthmail's 2014 launch as Ireland's national secure email system for patient communication offers direct insight into how community pharmacists integrated trusted digital tools into daily workflows.

What must a national single-record programme do to earn clinicians’ trust before rollout?

• Core requirement: Earn trust and support “from day one”...

Regionalisation lets local hospitals lead on innovation, generating hundreds of integrated examples that could spread across Ireland’s 20 IHAs....

National EHR implementation is flagged as essential for clinical research, AI innovation and meeting European Health Data Space rules, directly tying Budget 2027 life-sciences funding to future digital-health investment in Ireland.

Irish EHR leaders should require clinical validation, human oversight, explainability, privacy, workflow fit and clear accountability before embedding AI to identify patients needing preoperative support.

Ireland’s One Health Record procurement can apply a clear decision framework before funding the build.

• Choose hybrid when fixed constraints meet...

When memory issues, disability or family involvement limit a patient's ability to recall and act on medical advice, should they have enforceable...

Ireland's updated Public Services Card (PSC) now lets holders voluntarily add their date of birth for age verification, while changes in law allow it...

Oracle's new cloud-based Oncology EHR targets complex cancer workflows with domain-specific AI.

• Ambient scribing records interactions and tumor...

European data sovereignty rules and GDPR compliance are driving healthcare organizations to private cloud servers for EHRs and sensitive data,...

A new Irish membership launches this week offering same-day GP consultations alongside a secure, family-controlled digital health vault for every...

The EHR is rapidly becoming healthcare’s primary entry point for AI, with vendors embedding agents for documentation, coding, nursing workflows and...

Ireland’s DPC fined Google €403 million for GDPR breaches on lawfulness, transparency, accountability and excessive retention of location data. Deputy...