Irish EHR Pulse-- Dr. Conor

• Standardization and data refinement are essential to boost AI performance with EMR data
• Strict quality management is required across structured,...

Oracle Health advances 2026 hospital rollouts—including VA sites and community facilities—while holding 21.9% acute-care market share and introducing...

• Connectivity risk and resilience: On-premise avoids internet dependency for daily access, while cloud relies on vendor uptime but enables seamless...

A well-crafted software requirements specification prevents scope creep and ensures systems solve real operational problems without introducing new...

The VA completed its third round of Oracle EHR go-lives in 2026, rolling out the system to three Indiana medical centers and 16 clinics on...

Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has asked the EU’s top court whether its mandatory national health information system complies with GDPR. The...

Ireland's One Health Record rollout can draw directly from European frameworks to strengthen cybersecurity resilience.

• NIS2 and CER directives...

VA successfully deployed its Oracle Health EHR at three Indiana hospitals and 16 clinics on Aug. 22, now covering more than 102,000 veterans and 6,000...

Epic added just 12 new U.S. health systems this year—down from 28 in 2025—marking its slowest acute-care market share growth in five years at 43.7%....

Epic appears to be quietly weighing direct patient empowerment via AI that bypasses providers, signaled by Faulkner's "Chirp for the ring" joke and...

Epic's FTC antitrust investigation focuses on patient data access and employee restrictions, even as it denies anticompetitive practices and...

The VA's new Federal EHR portal goes live today at three Indiana hospitals, merging health records, prescriptions and messages into VA.gov while...

A Data Protection Impact Assessment provides a structured process for identifying and addressing privacy risks of proposed processing activities in Ireland before they begin.

New peer-reviewed research on implementation science-guided rollout of standalone health IT systems is now available with a permanent DOI, providing a citable resource for structured adoption approaches.

Oracle Health's senior vice president highlights the company's capacity to deliver data, insights and intelligence that help providers, patients and payers improve patient experiences.

AI agents are positioned to extract and summarize information from patient electronic health records, as part of reimagining bioethics in healthcare.

Ireland is positioning itself as a leading SaMD hub by turning strict EU rules into a competitive advantage.

• Regulation as market force: MDR, IVDR...

The VA has replaced last-four SSN check-in with Veteran Health ID card scans at all Federal EHR sites, accelerating patient matching and reducing...

VA's EHR contract with Oracle Health ballooned from $10B to nearly $27B due to deployment delays.

• Ceiling rose by $17B after "unanticipated...

The VA has hiked its Oracle Health EHR contract ceiling by $16.94B to $27B, citing deployment complexities and site customizations, while rolling out...