Stephen Donnelly directs HSE to withhold funds from hospitals not signing up to new computer system [Health Performance Visualisation Platform]

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  2. Why is this even an option for them? Agree with Donnelly on this one, and the opposition to it is telling.

    Genuinely think a health system wide performance measurement platform would be his biggest and most important lrgacy.

  3. ED worker here.

    The new software is fucking shite.

    Bought as is from a company who built it for the Australian health service.

    Unable to answer very basic questions (list of attendances within a specific timeframe for example).

    Does not have Electronic Health Record capabilities.

    The refresh rate is appallingly slow.

    It is largely incompatible with existing and much more useful software.

    Requests for changes to the vendor are usually met with “can’t be done”.

    If I was a cynic, I’d say this was only bought because it meant someone in authority got a backhander.

    The HSE should have used the money wasted on this to digitise existing patient records and get a genuine EHR solution.

  5. On one hand I agree with Donnelly, the department of health needs to be more dictatorial when it comes to healthcare digitisation – we’re years behind other countries becuse of the lack of centralised medical records. On the other hand, the software is probably a giant bag of shit given the governments selection processes.

    I don’t understand why they didn’t use the momentum from the rollout of the software they used for the Covid vaccine tracking. AFAIK it was some kind of Salesforce product, any nurses I spoke to about it said it was the best piece of software they had ever gotten to use for their jobs. I just don’t understand why the government didn’t go ‘ah let’s have more of this’ and use it to push through centralised medical records, given that they already had the guts of one built and tested for the vaccines?

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