The true cost of a national electronic health records (EHR) programme will exceed a government estimate of €2 billion several times over during its lifetime, as concerns mount about the state’s capacity to manage what is likely to be the most complex technology project ever undertaken in Ireland. Known as One Health Record, the project aims to replace thousands of legacy systems across 54 hospitals and all community care settings with a unified national patient records system – the contract for which will be awarded to a single provider.  A Department of Health official told the Oireachtas Health Committee in…

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