The electronic system for keeping medical notes at the Rotunda maternity hospital in Dublin could increase the risk to patients rather than help to improve the care of pregnant women, according to a senior hospital consultant.
Professor Sam Coulter-Smith, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, told an inquest on Tuesday that the Rotunda had “lost control of the process” of how it kept medical records.
He claimed the electronic record-keeping system in use at the hospital had been “parachuted in” with any changes to it subject to the approval of the HSE and was “not user-friendly.”
