Healthcare Policy
Dail Éireann — 2022-03-01
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Marc Ó Cathasaigh (GP), Waterford

I acknowledge the role of NearForm in my home town of Tramore which was instrumental in the production of that Covid tracker app. It did a great job of work in a short space of time and for relatively good value. I worry, when I hear the new e-health strategy will be delivered by 2030, which seems an inordinate amount of time. While the cyberattack, which was a calamity within a catastrophe in that it happened during the worst of the Covid outbreak, presented an enormous challenge, it also presented an opportunity in that a great deal of new equipment was brought in and maybe the opportunity for a new approach. The Minister mentioned the digitisation of records. That needs to be moved forward, as quickly as humanly possible. This is something we have set out in Sláintecare and maybe there is an opportunity to grasp this, rather than set a timeline that leads us so far into the decade.

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Sitting date: 2022-03-01