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Electronic Medical Record

The Electronic Medical Record (eMR) is an online record, which tracks and details a patient’s care during the time spent in hospital. Over time, the national roll out of the eMR will begin to replace paper-based records by integrating patient information in a central system. This will allow authorised clinicians to access a patient’s records from multiple locations with the aim being to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care.

NSW Health Electronic Medical Record Website, NSW Health

This website provides more information about what eMR is, why it is being introduced in NSW and has links to e-learning.

FirstNet

Firstnet is the eMR application selected by the NSW Department of Health to support the operation of emergency departments. Since it has been introduced in NSW FirstNet has been the subject of much discussion regarding it's suitability to meet the clinical, functional and usability requirements of the users.

The following resources have been collated to provide further information on the issues identified, curent situation and planned action surrounding Firstnet.

FirstNet Remediation Program

The FirstNet Remediation Program has been established to improve the operation and effectiveness of FirstNet in hospital emergency departments.

Voice recognition pilot - Manly Hospital Emergency Department

Voice recognition was recently piloted in Manly Emergency Department. This report includes the findings and evaluation of the project. Dr Marty Sterrett gave a presentation on the voice recognition system at the ECI ED Leadership Forum on 13 March 2015, entitled Successful use of Speech Recognition Technology in the ED.

A study of an enterprise health information system, John A. Patrick, released 4 March 2011

Part 1 - A critical essay on the deployment of an ED clinical information system - systemic failure or bad luck

Presentations on eMR:

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