HSE records governance, privacy and secure information custody

The DPC fined the HSE €645,000 after records were found covered in animal droppings, highlighting failures in storage, retention, disposal and breach reporting involving potentially hundreds of thousands of documents. Cyberattack and downtime concerns reinforce that authentication, granular access, continuity, audit logs, retention controls, supplier security and secure disposal are clinical-continuity and patient-safety requirements for One Health Record.