Expenditure by the HSE on ICT projects is running below profile by a significant €1.524 million for the first quarter of 2010 — or 76.5 per cent below forecast. According to figures obtained by Irish Medical Times, expenditure on construction works is also running below profile by €15.4 million (16.5 per cent) for the first [...]
More than 20 hospitals are now operating a single common patient administration system, HSE Hospital Network Manager John Hennessy has confirmed. The €60 million Integrated Patient Management System (IPMS) is used to manage patient records and was originally intended to link up all HSE records nationwide to aid treatment of patients. The Phase 1 rollout [...]
Beaumont Hospital wants to carry out an urgent risk assessment of its hospital information system, the failure of which could pose a danger to patient safety. Irish Medical Times has learned that the hardware and software underlying the Beaumont Hospital Information System (BHIS) are ‘obsolete’ and based on technology that is more than 20 years [...]
A European Commission decision adopted this week will oblige all EU countries to use, as of next year, a European databank for medical device. At present, data which are key to the safety of medical devices – such as conformity certificates, data on clinical investigations – are being collected only at the national level. This [...]
The HSE ICT Directorate has been forced to withdraw an invitation for third party software application support due to ‘exceptional circumstances’ following a legal challenge to the process. The HSE had identified 200 instances where supporting externally 18 applications developed in Delphi and DOS and several versions of Interbase would have proved ‘economically advantageous’. Last [...]
A new financial system for the HSE is currently being procured, which will complement the ill-fated PPARS payroll management computer solution, which is 70 per cent installed across the country. HSE CEO Prof Brendan Drumm told the Public Accounts Committee recently that ‘in retrospect, it is a pity [PPARS] had to be stopped, and I [...]
The Irish Society of Rheumatology (ISR) has urged that the country go digital with health records, claiming a unified system could lead to up to three times as many patient visits annually, reduce healthcare costs and provide better care for patients. “There are many health record systems being used in Ireland, with an estimated 20 [...]
A website dedicated to tracking the response of the European Union (EU) to female genital mutilation (FGM) has been launched by Amnesty International Ireland. It will document the response of EU institutions and the Council of Europe to assess developments on preventing FGM and will feature an interactive map of Europe, which will contain information [...]
Ireland has officially taken over the Health Technolgy Assessment International seventh annual meeting for 2010 – a major international conference coming to Ireland next year. The handover took place at this year’s conference in Singapore. It is expected that over 2,000 international delegates will attend the conference in Dublin in June 2010, which will be [...]
A laboratory in the UK saved £31,000 in 12 months due to better organisation, the Director of Diagnostics, NHS Improvement, revealed at the Annual Conference of the Academy of Medical Laboratory Science (AMLS) last weekend. “All savings were achieved with an initial cost for departmental redesign of £1,000 and a monthly average staff shortage of [...]
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