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 [...]
The HSE is to meet shortly with the three Dublin paediatric hospitals in an attempt to reduce the waiting list for paediatric orthopaedic surgery, IMT has learned. The move comes as it emerged that a 16-year-old girl who is suffering from severe scoliosis was informed by her consultant at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin (OLCHC) [...]
Dara Gantly writes that a new automated electronic audit introduced into general practice is helping to improve the care of patients with diabetes. GP members of the Health Ireland Users Group (HIUG) are spearheading a new automated electronic audit of diabetes care in general practice. The project, being run in 25 practices, uses the ability [...]
The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) is to set up an IT disaster-recovery service to safeguard against the loss of sensitive waiting-list information. The plan will ensure the ‘business continuity’ of the organisation at an alternative site in the event of the unavailability of its offices at Tara Street, Dublin. Established in April 2002, the [...]
The Chair of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI), Gerard Hurl has been appointed as National Director of ICT in the HSE, Irish Medical Times has learned. With a wealth of experience in healthcare-based ICT, Hurl was most recently working as Project Director of the ICT Convergence Project, Dublin Academic Teaching Hospitals (DATHs), reporting [...]
The history behind the Health Ireland User Group shows that doctors are best placed to help realise the full potential of the electronic patient record, Irish Medical Times reports. The HEALTHone practice management software package was originally developed by a doctor in Belgium, who had a clear understanding of the patient record and felt that [...]
An ‘intelligent pill’ has been developed that can utilise existing camera-pill technology and pH sensitivity to deliver drugs to parts of the GI tract affected by conditions such as Crohn’s disease or colitis. An ‘intelligent pill’ that can pinpoint where drugs are needed in the body and deliver them to the specific site of disease [...]
GP members of the Health Ireland User Group voted in favour of merging with Helix Health at an EGM last Saturday. The decision by the users of the HEALTHone software package to merge with their rival will see almost 80 per cent of Irish GPs using one of Helix Health’s suites of software applications. Farranfore [...]
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