{"id":36829,"date":"2025-09-01T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36829\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:29:11","slug":"suzanne-crowe-lack-of-proper-it-system-is-a-data-protection-risk-for-hse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36829\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Crowe: Lack of proper IT system is a data protection risk for HSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Medical staff are entrusted with patients\u2019 sensitive personal information and both paper and digital records must be kept securely\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The HSE still relies on paper-based records. Photo: Stock\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0ce4f27a-10c2-45e1-add5-6231419b3387.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The HSE still relies on paper-based records. Photo: Stock\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As an eager medical student, I requested a large bundle of patient charts for a research audit I was doing on breast cancer surgery. I asked the senior doctor I was working with, where was the best place to keep the charts until I had finished extracting the information I needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He winked and said, \u2018I\u2019ll show you.\u2019 The \u2018best place\u2019 turned out to be the boot of his car, where the charts I had amassed joined dozens of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical staff are entrusted with patients\u2019 sensitive personal information and both paper and digital records must be kept&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[3496,18,10890,135,475,474,60,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-36829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-gdpr","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-hse","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}