€19,000 to send HSE staff to US conference

Seven HSE staff travelled to the US, to Kansas, at a cost of €19,000. The trip was to attend a conference at which two of them made a presentation.

The conference was hosted by Cerner, the multinational healthcare technology company contracted by the HSE to provide two new IT systems, one for maternity hospitals and one for hospital laboratories, at a combined cost of €70m.

Both projects, the Maternal and Newborn Clinical Management System (MNCMS) and MedLIS, have experienced significant delays.