{"id":311034,"date":"2026-02-22T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:33:10","slug":"childrens-health-ireland-executives-urged-to-address-eye-watering-spend-on-travel-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311034\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Health Ireland executives urged to address \u2018eye-watering\u2019 spend on travel to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Social Democrats TD says management must explain bill for trips to software firm Epic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A building on the Epic campus in Wisconsin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/emeraldcity.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A building on the Epic campus in Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than \u20ac374,000 has been spent by Children\u2019s Health Ireland on flights and accommodation for staff working on its electronic system to visit the US headquarters of an IT giant over the last three years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">CHI awarded US-based Epic a \u20ac170m contract for its electronic health record (EHR) system in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Democrats TD says management must explain bill for trips to software firm Epic A building on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3414,61,60,29096,43],"class_list":["post-311034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-department-of-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-national-childrens-hospital","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}