Extra bill for HSE as delay hits €33m hospital system

The rollout of a €33m national intergrated laboratory information system in 43 public hospitals has been delayed by at least a year.

That will force the HSE to fork out for upgrades to maintain existing systems in the interim.

The national MedLIS project, which had a start date of October 2015 and was due for completion in 2019, failed to go live at St James Hospital, Dublin, last December, as part of phase one of the rollout.