http://www.thejournal.ie/app-emergency-departments-3641192-Oct2017/?utm_source=shortlink
The HSE is working on an app that will tell you how busy your local emergency
department is
A prototype of the app will be available by this November.
THE HSE IS developing an app that aims to inform patients on how busy their
nearest Emergency Departments (ED) around the country.
The app, which is being developed by eHealth Ireland, will list the average and
maximum waiting times to be triaged and to be seen in any particular department.
According to a statement from the HSE, the dashboard will collect the âdata
from the patient administration system deployed in the vast majority of EDsâ.
The first phase of development will involve a âprototypeâ website version
that will be rolled out this November. The HSE plans to get real time feedback
from the public âto ensure the patient front end of this is as easy to use as
possibleâ.
In a European report based on patient feedback, Ireland ranked the worst in a
survey of European countries for long waiting list times: both in terms of the
number of people waiting and the length of time they had to wait.
The HSE has said that the data published on the site will not identify
patients, and is being created to increase transparency.
The information is built as a ârule of thumbâ to enable a new information
transparency, the information changes very quickly and therefore will come with
caveats.
Not all hospitals will be covered in the beginning, the HSE added.
ââ¦Only hospitals that have taken the national Patient Administration System
solution (iPMS) are covered at this stage, once the prototype is completed ways
to engage the non-national PAS EDs will be consideredâ.
The PAS solution is a system of documenting patients, waiting lists,
admissions, discharges, and management recording in emergency departments.
Read: Ireland has one of the worst hospital waiting times in Europe
Read: How many HSE doctors does Navan hospitalâs emergency department have?
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