Health professionals are continuing to warn the state government that patients will be seriously harmed with the rollout of Queensland Health’s multi-million dollar integrated electronic medical record project.
Documented examples of the project damaging patient health include blood tests being labelled with the wrong data, patients being administered double doses of medications and cervical screening tests going missing.
Nevertheless, spokesperson for acting Health Minister Mark Bailey says patient safety had markedly improved since the system was rolled out, and had reduced both the average length of stay and chance of re-admission.