The project originated in the Mater Hospital in 1995 but quickly evolved into a national project with the launch of HealthlinkOnline in 2003. The service is available free of charge to all GPs.

The objective of the Healthlink project is to implement a prototype healthcare communications network with specific reference to Primary Care Practitioners and acute Hospital and agency relationships, and data exchange.

HealthlinkOnline is a web-based messaging service which allows the secure transfer of patient information over the internet. The message types available in the HealthlinkOnline system are:

Currently Connolly Hospital are sending messages relating to some of our Laboraory results to GPs subscribed to Healthlink and we are working on a rollout of the other messages in the above list.

For further information on this project visit www.healthlink.ie