Can AI help modernise Ireland’s healthcare system?

Can AI help modernise Ireland’s healthcare system?

Padraig Belton

Technology Reporter

Mater Exterior of the Mater hospital in DublinMater

The Mater hospital in Dublin – home to Ireland’s busiest emergency department

For a country famous as Big Tech’s European address, Ireland’s hospitals often lag far behind in technology.

They lack shared computerised patient records, or unique identifiers to track people when they move between clinics.

In July 2024, a computer system failure made Dublin’s Mater hospital push back surgeries and beg people not to come to its A&E.

Three years before, Russian…

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