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Padraig Belton
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Journalist, BBC
Dublin, Oxford
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Digital Marketing , Startups , Product Management , Entrepreneurship , Ecommerce
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By Padraig Belton Verified| BBC Verified Can AI help modernise Ireland's healthcare system? Padraig BeltonMaterThe Mater hospital in Dublin - home to Ireland's busiest emergency departmentFor 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.
By Padraig Belton Verified| Business Post Verified This September, Ireland becomes the last country in the OECD, the world’s group of 38 higher-income and developed countries, to adopt pension auto-enrolment. “If we’re worried about elderly poverty, auto-enrolling will be a positive thing,” said Dr Claire Keane, who gave the keynote address on 30 January at the National Pension Summit, now in its sixth year. Ireland has been an “outlier” not to introduce it sooner, she said.
By Padraig Belton Verified| BBC Verified Can AI help modernise Ireland's healthcare system? Padraig BeltonMaterThe Mater hospital in Dublin - home to Ireland's busiest emergency departmentFor 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.
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BBC
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