Chairperson

Welcome to Health One

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You are welcome to Health One, a powerful, standards based, user configurable practice management system. Health One has a long pedigree of innovation and continues to be at the forefront of new features. We have an active development team which responds actively to suggestions made by the Health One user group. The Health One user group is unique in that it meets regularly for education and feedback sessions and has a lively on-line user forum.

Health One is powerful, but can run on modest hardware. It is scalable; it can be run as a standalone application on a laptop, or the database can run on a server and provide data to many PC’s on a network. In either environment, it is very stable.

Health One is one of the long running practice management systems on the Irish market; it has been rigorously assessed by the GP IT committee of the HSE and continues to meet the evolving standards required.

One of the great strengths of Health One is that it is virtually endlessly user configurable. However there are standard set ups which will suit all users. There is excellent technical support, which is substantially augmented by the user group.

Health One has been at the forefront of such developments as the electronic labs projects, electronic delivery of co-op reports and is working closely with the National Cancer Control Program to support the two way delivery of requests for appointments and confirmations on line. A particular feature of Health One is the use of not only standard terms, but its ability to link into coding systems such as ICPC, ICD and others.

Health One allows for audit; the end user can determine what data they need to find on very highly stratified demographic data (e.g. how many men over 50 in the practice smoke, have hypertension and hyper-lipidaemia). With the need from 1^st May 2011 for every doctor in the country to carry out regular audit of their practice, Health One will allow you to answer the “what if” questions in minutes.

With chronic disease management about to become the norm, such things as identification of patients with chronic illnesses, the call and recall of these patients, text reminders for appointments, the use of standard templates of care and the facility to easily generate reports of these activities make Health One ideally suited for the years to come.

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Dr Eamonn Shanahan (Chairperson 2010 – 2011)