Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 24 November 2016
210. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the total proposed capital investment in health service information technology in each year from 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36798/16]
View answerThe following table sets out the planned ICT capital envelope for health for the period 2016 to 2021. It is proposed that there will be a mid-term review of the State’s capital envelope, which will assess progress, review emerging pressures and demands. It is expected that this mid-term review will be completed in 2017. My Department published an eHealth strategy in 2013 which highlighted the opportunity for providing for a digital infrastructure to support health and social care to improve health delivery efficiency and underpin patient safety. The strategy also recognised the need for further investment in healthcare Information and Communications Technology and while significant improvement in the capital spending for ICT in health since 2012 has taken place, further investment will be required into the future and this is recognised in the Programme for Government. In recent months the HSE has submitted a business case for a national electronic health care record for Ireland which will provide for a digital platform across the acute, community and primary care areas allowing the connectivity necessary to support models of integrated care. It is envisaged that the first acute hospital setting for an electronic health record will be the New Children's Hospital. In the coming months I hope to being proposals to Government on how to move this agenda forward.
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2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Total |
|
€m |
€m |
€m |
€m |
€m |
€m |
€m |
|
55 |
55 |
60 |
70 |
85 |
87 |
412 |
