xShare Adoption Site – Ireland

The Irish Adoption Site is a joint national partnership between the Department of Health (DoH) and the Health Service Executive (HSE) working with the solution provider Gnomon Informatics S.A. The DoH is responsible for the development of health strategy and the HSE is responsible for the implementation and operations of this health strategy.

Ireland has developed a national shared care record and is in procurement for a new national eP / eD solution, and enhancing our national Health App, to enable the sharing of standardised, interoperable digital health records, and to meet our EHDS commitments. EHDS priority categories for the exchange of patient summary information and for ePrescriptions / dispensations will be fulfilled by the development of the national shared care record and our national eP solution, while the Health App will empower citizens to access and take responsibility for their health data. xShare is an important component in empowering citizens with access to their digital health records and enhancing care, as xShare will enable citizens to exchange their health information with trusted health care professionals by utilizing the Download and One time share functionality, currently for the PS.  

The initial focus in the development and release of the HSE App was on usability and priority data sets. The HSE App is now working on Release 6 (release date 20th July ‘26) and its continued focus is adding priority data sets, and self-administered functionality. We have discussed the integration and release of the xShare Button into the HSE App which will now occur outside of the timeline of this xShare project due to the focus on integrating priority data categories.