Nurses and midwives working in South Australia's public hospital system will soon have automated access to patient records through a new AU$17 million Web based information system.
Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has openly expressed his frustration at the slow progress towards a single portable electronic healthcare record (EHR) framework -- but early trials in Australia's least populous states suggest that lack of patient buy-in, not technological limitations, may limit the utility of the EHR systems expected to be in place before the year's end.
Unless we can prove that electronic health records work, how can we justify additional IT spending to doctors, nurses, and patients?
South Australian sports medicine clinic Sportsmed-SA has inked a five year, AU$800,000 deal for software and services from e-health technology vendor IBA Health.
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