A $408 million e-health program was launched in Adelaide yesterday.
While South Australia was busy rolling out its advanced e-health plan, other states were still planning their own different systems - raising doubts about a national strategy to ultimately link electronic records across all hospitals in every jurisdiction.
SA Health's chief medical officer, Paddy Phillips, said South Australia would be the first health system in the country to have a continuous electronic health record when the system was up and running in 2013.
The state-based system would link to the federal government's electronic health records system, Dr Phillips said.
"We will be moving towards a virtually paperless health record system. The national strategy is ultimately to have a linkage of e-health records across the whole system. We are leading the way in our progress towards that," he said. "But each state is going towards their own solution."
He said there was no national co-ordinated rollout because "there are different standards and different states are moving at different paces".
The new federal Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, said the South Australian system would connect hospitals to the national e-health system.
"Vital information can then be safely accessed, no matter where the patient is from,'' she said.
"It will deliver real-time medical information about emergency patients, monitor the progress of patients in hospitals and alert staff when waiting times exceed targets."
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Michael Owen
Quelle/Source: The Australian, 15.12.2011
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