App will not cover voluntary hospitals due to challenges around data sharing, board members told
The app provides patients with information under 'your health identity', 'access to your health data' and 'access to personalised health services'. Photograph: iStock
However, voluntary hospitals, which count for about a third of the public system, are not involved at this stage of the app’s development, HSE board members have been told. They expressed concern at this fact, while acknowledging the positive feedback around the project. Patients representatives are involved in the steering group for the app, interim HSE chief technology and transformation officer John Ward said.
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