This appeared last week:Digital revolution rolling out in hospitalsAuthored by Charlotte MitchellIssue 42 / 31 October 2016 TWO Australian hospitals have successfully gone completely digital, and one of the project leaders says there’s no reason others can’t start the process.Ms Jackie McLeod, project director of the electronic medical record implementation at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne, told MJA InSight that with careful preparation, a digital transformation can have incredible results.“You have to involve clinicians and executives, and make it the total focus of the organisation. It isn’t easy, but the benefits are there,” she said. “Would a hospital really choose to run on paper forever? To me that’s not acceptable.”Ms McLeod was commenting on an article published today in the MJA which discussed the digital transformation of the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) in Brisbane over a 2-week period. PAH was chosen as the exemplar site for a Queensland-wide...
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