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Target date of autumn 2024 set for new proposals

Patients have been kept on the outside of their healthcare experience; they should be promoted to educators and decision-makers.

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Group of 25 people sought to consider how should genetics be applied and regulated

A nationwide campaign has been launched to find 25 members of the public, broadly representative of the Irish population, who are willing to be part of a “Citizens’ Jury” on what should happen to a person’s health information. It comes in advance of the creation of a national electronic health record which would have a summary of each individual’s medical information allowing doctors to access it regardless of what health setting the patient is attending instead of the current system ...

COVID 2020: History in the making The year started like any other, with all the headlines of the local newspaper focused on the daily lives and activities of a community. But by mid-March, everyones attention was on a deadly new virus. This is the first in a three-part recap of the coronavirus pandemic and 2020. The Register’s coverage of COVID-19 began, appropriately enough, with China. Moran native Molly McEwan and her fiance, Tyson Carpenter, are living and teaching in China. Register fil...