Hospital maternity IT system rollout on hold

The national rollout of a €35m IT system designed to improve care for mothers and babies has been put on hold until a digital link is in place that will allow electronic sharing of data between maternity hospitals and GPs.

Richard Corbridge, the HSE’s chief information officer, who is due to leave his post in November, said he has “personally committed that no new site will go live until we have designed, built, and tested the integrated solution”.

Integration between the GP and hospital system in the Cork region is due to commence on October 31.