ASIA PACIFIC access to certain components of the record such as pathology , radiology , medications , operative notes and discharge summaries using The Viewer . It is a function already accessible by every GP in Queensland . Software providers such as Medical Director and the pan-Australian My Health Record patient / doctor portal will increasingly be able to interface with the ieMR system to give the community better and faster access to their medical records .

“ We are very keen to provide access to information ,” says Dr Ayre . “ There is a whole range of patient-facing services you can update online like appointment checking and registration data . We are also interested in getting some of the community-based services onto the system .”

In the coming year , with the inhouse implementation out of the way , he wants to focus on connecting care , across the five hospitals in the system and out into the community . Metro South Health ’ s Hospital in the Home service , which provides shortterm home-based acute care in the homes of patients that formerly would have had to be hospitalised , is a good

— Dr Stephen Ayre , CEO of Metro South Health

example of the type of service he ’ d like to see extended and enabled by the provision of ieMR .

Digitisation has improved efficiency , increased capacity without extra resourcing , and enhanced patient care . “ I want to make sure that I can maximise these benefits while

decreasing the hospital complication ,

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