Infrastructure and digitisation are key challenges facing Anne Coyle, who returns to helm the north Dublin hospital having begun her career as an intern there
. Now Coyle has returned, this time as the hospital’s chief executive officer – and her role isn’t the only thing that has changed in those intervening years.
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Application for planning permission has been made to develop a new ED; it is envisaged that it will triple the current size . There are also plans for 95 new beds in a new ward. As is the case in the health service throughout the State, digitisation is an area that staff at Beaumont are seeking to progress. When the hospital opened, Coyle says, it was “really advanced”, having been provided with what was called the Beaumont Health Information System.
Coyle stresses the importance of people “being able to have that access to our own information” in digital form, “because it’s our information”.
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