A 'lightning presentation' delivered by Loretto Grogan at the 2019 IPPOSI Conference on Electronic Health Records.

1. Electronic Health Records in Ireland
getting it right from the start
IPPOSI Conference 7th October 2019

2. Introduction
Loretto Grogan
National Clinical Information Officer for
Nursing and Midwifery HSE

3. Context for getting it right
 People and patients
 At the core of what we all do every day and why
we do it
 Community - most people live at home
 Other services when we become too unwell to be
at home or need a specific intervention
 One person - journey through acute and community
services
 Health and well being - key building block for
society

4. Context for getting it right
eHealth

5. Context for getting it right

6. What we will do – Roadmap for
Digital Nursing and Midwifery

7. What right will be like….
 Information follows the patient
 Comprehensive picture of health for the patient
and their families
 Empowering patients to manage their own health
 Facilitate self management
 Shared decision making
 Partnership approach
 More informed and engaged patients and citizens

8. What right will be like….
 Right data about the right patient in the
right place at the right time
 Better data better decisions
 Integration of services across care settings
 Improved patient-clinician relationship

9. To conclude
 Unique juncture in the history of healthcare with
the convergence of the EHR, biosensors, genomics
and other digital advances
 Make sense of the overwhelming amount of data
created
 Remarkable potential for digital healthcare
technologies to positively impact care if we get it
right!

10. Better Together