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Can AI help modernise Ireland's healthcare system?
Ireland is investing billions of euros to revamp its healthcare service - will AI help?
Three years before, Russian ransomware attackers shut down the Irish health system's entire computer network, and published 520 people's medical records online. But a lot of other important information, like medical notes or electrocardiograms (ECGs), remains largely in paper format in most Irish hospitals, or in smaller databases that are not shared centrally. "Quite bluntly, a lot of hospitals are dealing with legacy IT systems where they're just trying to keep the show on the road," says Dr Robert Ross, a senior computer science lecturer at Technological University Dublin.
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