Metro South Health Service Queensland -Our Transformation to Australia's First Digital Health Service

摘要

Metro South's transformation into Australia's first digital health service was a large scale and highly complex task, requiring massive clinical change while ensuring the highest levels of safety and quality for patients. The project exemplified the innovative use of ICT to achieve better connected, more efficient, integrated, and safer care. The integrated electronic medical record (ieMR) program of work commenced in 2015 at Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) being the first tertiary public hospital in Australia to replace paper-based medical records. The record automates uploads of observations and vital signs from patient monitoring devices, allows efficient electronic ordering of radiology and pathology tests; and provides decision support for clinicians in prescribing, verifying and administering medicines to our patients.