Experts By Experience - Lessons From Canada

Would you like to have greater access to and more control over your own health data? In this episode of our series Digital Health: Putting People First, IPPOSI CEO Derick Mitchell interviewed Prof Colin Doherty, Consultant Neurologist and Director of the Epilepsy Service at St James's Hospital. They talked about what we can learn from the PiSCES (Providing Individualised Services and Care in Epilepsy) Patient Portal in St James's, the benefits and challenges of implementing a patient health portal, the benefits of co-designing new digital systems with patients, and much more.

Ireland can learn a lot from how several hospital services in the country have moved from paper to electronic patient records. In this episode of our series Digital Health: Putting People First, IPPOSI CEO Derick Mitchell interviewed Dr Grainne Courtney, HIV and Genitourinary consultant at St James's Hospital and the HSE and former Chief Clinical Information Officer at St James's. They discussed Grainne's role as CCIO in delivering an electronic patient record for in-patients at St. James's, the healthcare benefits for both clinicians and patients of moving from paper to electronic records, our Citizens' Jury on Access to Health Information, and what Grainne hopes to see in the future regarding a patient portal in Ireland. If you are interested in the topics of digital health and health data, be sure to tune into this series!

There is much to be learned from Ireland’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when it comes to how Ireland can continue to develop patient- and citizen-centred digital health solutions. In the first episode of the Digital Health: Putting People First podcast series, IPPOSI CEO Dr Derick Mitchell interviewed Gar Mac Criosta, Digital Advisor in the HSE, and one of the key people charged with developing Ireland’s world-leading COVID-19 tracker app. They discussed the involvement of patients in the development of digital health solutions, the importance of building trust between citizens and the government, and more. If you are interested in the topics of digital health and health data, be sure to tune into this series!

Derick Mitchell, IPPOSI CEO and Robert Joyce, Patient involved in research in NUIG spoke to Connemara Community Radio on December 8th 2020 about the IPPOSI and EUPATI Patient Education programmes. www.ipposi.ie and www.eupati.eu

This podcast looks at patient engagement in Ontario, Canada.

Techcentral talked to Derick Mitchell, CEO of the Irish Platform for Patient Organisations, Science & Industry (IPPOSI) about how we can use our personal data to personalise our experience of the healthcare system.