€170m buying system on hold

THE introduction of another €170 million computer system, being developed by the Health Service Executive, is to be put on hold following the PPARS payroll fiasco.

€170m buying system on hold

Work began early last year on introducing the Financial Information Systems Project (FISP) which was aimed at making savings of €80m per year through controlling bulk buying of services.

HSE sources said that the further roll-out of FISP, which they claim is running on budget, is being postponed as the HSE want to “err on the side of caution” as the project is based on the same SAP computer system as PPARS.

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