With the decades of ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘u’ already behind us, Dr Mick Molloy wonders which vowel will be chosen to sum up the next great leap forward in technology.
Averting IT disaster at St Luke’s
October 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Aoife Connors examines a new virtualised disaster recovery solution for the IT infrastructure at St Luke’s Hospital in Dublin Staff at St Luke’s Hospital in Rathgar are quickly becoming leaders on the use of advanced information technology (IT) within Irish hospitals. In July 2010, the hospital implemented a virtualised disaster recovery computer system, while an [...]
Maternity hospitals develop new IT disaster plan
September 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie The three Dublin maternity hospitals have started to standardise ICT infrastructure and operational practices across the facilities in line with their joint ICT strategy of 2006, which will provide for speedy and full recovery of major systems in the event of a disaster. The Joint Maternities Committee approved the strategy in [...]
Quality systems for doctors
September 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
How far do we need to go to prepare for the quality standards that lie ahead, ask Dr Michael M. Lynch MICGP and Dr John J. Hannan PhD The standard ISO 15189:2007 ‘Medical laboratories – Particular requirements for quality and competence’ has become mandatory for all hospital transfusion laboratories in Europe since the ratification of [...]
All health IT is local
September 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
While the HSE insists no hospital goes it alone on major IT projects, a new review in the NHS has recommended the local approach, reports Dara Gantly A UK Department of Health review of the National Programme for IT has concluded that a centralised, national approach is no longer required, and that a more locally-led [...]
ICT spend 75% below profile
June 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Medical card applications go online
June 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Medical card applications can now be completed and submitted online through the HSE’s new medicalcard.ie system. Applicants can check the status of their application and their eligibility for a GP-visit card through the new online system, launched last week. A checklist can be printed and the application can be submitted online with the required documents [...]
20-plus hospitals now operating IPMS
May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Risk analysis at Beaumont due
May 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
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 [...]
IT contract scuppered
April 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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