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 [...]
A new website, Lose the Blues has been launched at University College Cork (UCC) aimed at students experiencing depressive symptoms. The website is designed specifically for 18- to 24-year-olds who may be experiencing “low mood to cope with their experiences.” As well as providing information on depression and links to national and international support services, [...]
A new Irish website aims to provide patients with information and advice on over-the-counter medicines and a special ‘Find a Pharmacist’ service Increasingly, the general public are accessing the web to investigate and manage their own health. The internet can be a wonderful educational tool, if used correctly, and can empower patients to take ownership [...]
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 [...]
TS Eliot once said something like: So much has changed that I must also change. I am remembering this rather inexactly, but what my fractured recollection still manages to convey is this: the world had altered so profoundly that traditional modes of artistic expression, such as poetry (at least, what the world knew poetry to [...]
… the Mentalists can do this with them.
The integration of IT between primary, secondary and community care is proving a critical factor for doctors when choosing their technology partner. The medical profession has witnessed increasing levels of conversion between technology systems over the past decade. One only has to think of the integration of out-of-hours co-op messaging, or electronic laboratory and radiology [...]
Should I join Facebook? I Googled an old acquaintance the other day, a very good-looking old acquaintance. It had been five years since we last talked, and something in the news made me think of her, ie., a perfect opportunity to check in. A more experienced internet user could probably have found out where she [...]
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