Irish EHR Pulse-- Dr. Conor

Layered extensions are failing to deliver interoperability in modern hospital core EHRs, requiring a fundamental shift in approach.

New legislation effective 30 June 2026 lets community pharmacies retain Healthmail and High Tech Hub prescriptions electronically, ending mandatory...

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Ambient AI tools generate draft clinical notes from patient encounters, slashing documentation time and after-hours work.

• Proven impact: Pilots at...

An AI-native EHR has achieved EU Medical Device Regulation certification. This milestone directly affects how Irish procurement teams evaluate AI tools for regulatory compliance ahead of the AI Act and EHDS rollout.

Irish EHR projects like HSE's One Health Record face the same production pitfalls outlined in this guide.

• Authentication failures top the list,...

Ireland's mid-tier eGovernment ranking (17th of 35) masks strong citizen-centric momentum that directly supports the national EHR rollout. The Digital...

FHIR moves data between systems via modern REST APIs but does not define internal storage models, while openEHR uses clinician-vetted archetypes for...

Sharon Scanlan's 'state of the nation' address will spotlight Ireland's largest public health transformation via national EHR rollout.

• Capacity...

Europe's hospital EHR/EPR systems are evolving beyond documentation to support governed secondary data use, clinical trials and real-world evidence...

An EHR provides a longitudinal record of an individual's health status in computer-processible form across practices and specialists. This integrated foundation remains central to any successful national rollout.

Ireland EHR Rollout Updates

• 🔥 Slow Start with Progress: Ireland's Digital Health Record rollout features a multi-layered government approach...

Further rollout of UK Electronic Patient Records Systems could reduce mortality further and would also be cost-effective, offering a clear European reference point for Ireland’s HSE procurement and Sláintecare timelines on digital health data.

Local LLMs including Llama 3.1 (8B) and Mistral (7B) were benchmarked via the Microsoft GraphRAG pipeline on real-world EHR schema documentation to improve retrieval accuracy.

Ireland's digital health record rollout is off to a slow start, yet shows progress through a multi-layered approach including the HSE Health App,...

Irish Policy Updates

• 🔥 Health in Ireland: Key Trends 2025: Minister for Health publishes Health in Ireland: Key Trends 2025, providing...

Europe's healthcare IT services market is projected to reach USD 196.42 billion by 2035, fueled by rapid EHR adoption.

The Health in Ireland: Key Trends 2025 report supplies essential background for the Department of Health's development of legislation, policy and...

• Black Book advises European hospitals to assess cybersecurity vendors using 18 qualitative KPIs focused on clinical continuity
• Recent incidents...