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Towards routine use of national electronic health records in Australian emergency departments
Author(s) -
Miles Paul,
Hugman Andrew,
Ryan Angela,
Landgren Fiona,
Liong Grace
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja2.50033
Subject(s) - health records , medical emergency , electronic health record , medicine , family medicine , health care , political science , law
The nature of emergency medicine demands immediate access to health information.1 Emergency department (ED) clinicians often require additional data that are external to the hospital’s inhouse clinical information system (CIS), such as medication history, allergies and previous diagnostic information, to ensure health care is safe and appropriate for an individual’s needs. However, it is widely recognised that communication channels between health care providers and across different settings are often suboptimal.2 This leaves a potential gap in which accurate details of a presenting patient’s history may not be readily available at the point of care.3