Outdated IT putting Australia's sick at risk
18-Mar-15, The Morning Bulletin
Aging computer systems are putting regional and rural patients at risk.
Sick residents are paying the price as doctors at the state's public hospitals face mounds of paperwork and miss-matched software systems.
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It's so bad that medics often have to remember up to 10 passwords and the technology dates back to the era of floppy disks - the 1980s.
AMA Queensland president Shaun Rudd says the problem is state-wide and patients face falling through the cracks between hospitals and GP clinics because of out-dated IT systems.