HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE
Shaw says : “ We now have a 2025 digital capability because of the acceleration driven by COVID . Curley and Donal Morris , CEO of Redzinc , had a telehealth solution , Blueeye , co-designed and deployed in St James Hospital as well as in HSE Mental Health Services , before most of HSE mainstream employees had ever heard of Zoom or Teams .
" We have a very well supported national healthcare strategy , called Sláintecare , but the results delivery is lagging behind the vision , perhaps through overdependence on external consultants . I have always believed that strategy and accountability for delivery cannot be outsourced . All of the parties in the government approved the programme – which is unique in the history of Ireland – so while we are still lagging in Europe with respect to healthcare , we are on a fast improvement trajectory .
Sláintecare is a programme developed by the Department of Health of Ireland and HSE that aims to build equal access to services for every citizen , with its vision of one universal health service for all as a guide . With this new model , patients will be treated based on their need , instead of their ability to pay .
" We ' ve now leapt from having a lagging respiratory measurement system to a world-leading capability with a company called PMD Solutions and their product , RespiraSense . RespiraSense is deployed in 23 acute hospitals and we have just now made it available in a community living lab setting . We ' re deploying vital signs automation to over 20 hospitals , detecting deteriorating patients earlier , improving the nursing experience , shortening average length of stays and adding new capacity back into the system through efficiencies .
326 June 2022