The Digital Government Oversight Unit (DGOU), in the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, considers requests for approval of ICT-related expenditure by hospitals following an assessment of proposals by the HSE and the Department of Health. The Unit has not recently received a request for approval of expenditure on ViewPoint foetal assessment equipment and has no outstanding requests in this area.
A request for approval of ViewPoint software-related expenditure for hospitals in County Louth was agreed at a meeting of the HSE, the Department of Health and DGOU in early December. It was indicated at the meeting that it would not be necessary to purchase additional ICT storage or server capacity to support the operation of ViewPoint in those hospitals.
The timing for deploying and bringing equipment into use is a matter for the HSE in consultation with the relevant hospitals.