Up to 1,500 patients to trial new HSE app
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The first HSE patient app will be released on a trial basis this week with up to 1,500 patients to be involved as part of a move to modernise communications in the services.
The app will eventually offer all public patients a single door into public health services. They will be able to change appointments or look up accurate health information.
It will cover public hospitals and HSE community services.
HSE chief technology and transformation officer Damien McCallion has described the app as “the patients’ window into their information”.
A spokeswoman said this week the run-up to Christmas will see a limited initial release to a group of between 1,000 and 1,500 people.
“It is planned to do a wider public release in Q1 after the Christmas and New Year period,” she said.
Patients will be able to safely and securely access their health information through the app on their mobile phones.
Information included in this first version will include appointments for maternity services nationally.
Patients with medical cards and European Health Insurance Cards will see a digital card on the app. It will also offer communications around vaccinations of various kinds.
Information on services and links to self-care supports will also be available.
It will also allow patients to store details of their medications. The latter will help anyone with a chronic or complex condition perhaps being treated by a number of different doctors or hospitals.
This launch comes after much focus on gaps in digital healthcare and funding shortages.
A renewed effort to tackle this began in the wake of the devastating cyberattack on the HSE in 2021.