Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Question:856. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the spend-to-date and projected spend on introducing the individual health identifier system; and the breakdown for same. [38364/15]
View answerTuesday, 3 November 2015
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The Health Identifiers Act 2014 sets out the legislative basis to support an identifiers framework for patients and providers for the health service in Ireland. The estimated ICT related costs to date i.e. 2015, for the initial stages of implementing the individual health identifier register is approximately €550,000. Costs to date have included some system design work, hardware and a privacy impact assessment and only relate to the ICT elements of the individual health identifier register. Estimates of known ICT related costs to end 2018 are around €1.7m. Further ICT costs will arise particularly in linking with major healthcare systems but estimates of these costs are not yet available.
The HSE is currently examining the additional staffing and business supports that will be required to operate and maintain a health identifier service into the future and these are being examined in the context of service planning for 2016.