HSE launches app allowing patients access to their health data

Hélène Troissant with her children Aaron and Ella. She found the app 'really useful'.

A HSE health app launched on Tuesday will soon allow patients to tap their phones on entry to hospitals or clinics to share their data instead of calling it out to receptionists.

This is just one of the functions the HSE pledged the app will deliver as part of long-promised moves towards a digital health system. Some €5.9m has been spent so far including on ramping up security and cyber-safety around the app.