Crowe calls on minister to intervene in Tallaght Hospital data breach<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on Health
\u00a0 Minister James Reilly to intervene to ensure that Tallaght Hospital
\u00a0 reconsiders its policy of outsourcing transcription services in light of
\u00a0 reports of a data breach of patient information and growing unemployment
\u00a0 in the Tallaght area.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Deputy Crowe was speaking today after reports that the hospital will
\u00a0 continue to outsource transcription services to the Philippines.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u201cReports today that Tallaght Hospital will continue to outsource the
\u00a0 transcription of medical consultation reports and letters to the
\u00a0 Philippines is an affront to those whose private data was breached and
\u00a0 also to those locally unemployed people who could easily be hired to do
\u00a0 this job.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u201cI am calling on hospital chiefs at Tallaght Hospital to reconsider this
\u00a0 policy of outsourcing transcription services. There is a major risk of
\u00a0 identity theft and fraud of those people whose data is breached.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u201cI recently asked the Health Minister James Reilly to outline his policy
\u00a0 on this contracting of clerical work outside of Ireland by some
\u00a0 hospitals and the minister did not even acknowledge that it is an issue.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u201cThis is simply not good enough.\u00a0 The minister must intervene to ensure
\u00a0 the safety of patients\u2019 private data.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u201cAt a time of a major unemployment crisis the minister cannot allow this
\u00a0 outsourcing to continue.\u201d ENDS<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Editor\u2019s note: PQ from Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe is below for your information.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 46.\u00a0 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 asked the Minister for Health\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 his
\u00a0 policy on the practice in some hospitals of contracting routine clerical
\u00a0 work outside of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
\u00a0 [17909\/11]<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Minister for Health (Deputy James Reilly):\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is not a matter of
\u00a0 Government policy that hospitals or other health services contract
\u00a0 clerical work outside of Ireland, as suggested by the Deputy. However,
\u00a0 all bodies in receipt of public funding, not just in the health sector,
\u00a0 must manage their resources in the most cost effective and efficient
\u00a0 manner possible.
\u00a0 The Deputy will also be aware that the Government is also carrying out a
\u00a0 Comprehensive Review of Expenditure. Under this review, it is committed
\u00a0 to examining all aspects of public expenditure, with a view to ensuring
\u00a0 that all resources are used in the optimum manner to deliver services to
\u00a0 citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Crowe calls on minister to intervene in Tallaght Hospital data breach \u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on Health\u00a0 Minister James Reilly to intervene to ensure that Tallaght Hospital\u00a0 reconsiders its policy of outsourcing transcription services in light of\u00a0 reports of a data breach of patient information and growing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}