Former digital chief 'thought he had died and gone to hell' working in the HSE

Prof Martin Curley, then head of the HSE Digital Transformation, pictured last year with Minister Stephen Donnelly, Dr Rachel McNamara, NCHD Innovation Fellow. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Patients have died or suffered unnecessarily long hospital stays due to the HSE’s lack of digital transformation and use of electronic health records, according to a former HSE employee.

The HSE was described as lagging “decades behind” in terms of its adoption of technology, and is left working with “Victorian-like tools”.