Irish EHR Pulse-- Dr. Conor

Irish PSC Expansion and Privacy Concerns

• 🔥 Government Proposal for Broader PSC Use: Ireland’s government proposes enabling Public Services...

32.3% of US family medicine residents spend 3+ hours daily after-hours on ambulatory EHRs.

• High pajama time ties to burnout (OR 1.61), lower...

Game-changing workflow shift: Abridge embeds NEJM Group and JAMA Network content directly into EHRs, delivering evidence-based answers without leaving...

Key privacy risks in Ireland's PSC push to national ID:

• Gov seeks PSC use for finance/age verification, creating de facto ID without data...

New framework guides discovery and assessment of ethical concerns associated with electronic patient records (EPR). Key for Irish EHR deployments prioritizing patient privacy.

• National project team rolling out single EHR in maternity units.
• Viewpoint paper details implementation process, experiences, and lessons learned.
• Key insights for broader Irish hospital EHR strategies.

European Hospital Cyber Disruptions

• 🔥 Belgian Hospitals Offline: A cyberattack compromised a third-party provider, disrupting patient-facing...

Critical lesson for HSE EHR rollout: Cyberattack on Dutch firm ChipSoft disrupted patient portals in Belgian hospitals like Hospital aan de Stroom –...

Key privacy red flags from California lawsuit against Sutter Health and MemorialCare's use of Abridge AI:

• No informed consent: Sensitive...

Vital insights from German patients on health data sharing—relevant for Ireland's GDPR-aligned EHR policies:

• Similar priorities across somatic and...

Ireland's first national AI strategy has been published, outlining opportunities for AI deployment over the next five years and setting out four...

National EHR Rollout Momentum

• 🔥 Government Procurement Endorsement: Recent Government endorsement of procurement for a vendor enables the...

Cyber alert for European EHR: Ransomware disrupts services at Dutch/Belgian hospitals.

• ChipSoft's HiX platform—widely used across Netherlands—hit by...

Prime spot for Irish EHR pros to network with 700+ diverse delegates from policy, industry, academia, and clinicians.

• EHR Spotlight: HSE CEO Anne...

Trend alert: Nordic and Meditech showcase tools empowering patients amid Ireland's EHR momentum.

• Patient portals unlock appointments, results,...

• Europe-wide tool: New WHO database for the Region covers electronic records, interoperability, data governance, and EHR barriers with 70...

Irish Digital Wallet Consultation

• 🔥 Ireland has launched a public consultation and testing phase for its Government Digital Wallet under the EU...

Rising US momentum in AI tools like Insight Health's $11M-funded agents and ambient scribes, which handle patient intake, EHR processing, and...

• User control emphasized: Wallet ensures personal data protection, with users choosing what to share—only needed details disclosed.
• Core privacy...

EHR data doesn't fit neat ML tables, per this Plain English summary of research on The Taxonomies, Training, and Applications of Event Stream...