Queensland labour government trials digital hospital

 03-Sep-15, The Australian 

Health Minister Cameron Dick has unveiled a plan to allow patients to be monitored electronically and have their file notes digitally stored in state hospitals.

The first hospital to go digital will be Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital in November, if it is clinically safe to do so.

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Mr Dick says Labor envisages a network of "digital hospitals", sharing information with each other, across the state.

It's all part of the government's 20-year health strategy.

"It's about delivering better patient care, but (also) more effective hospital operations for clinicians, so clinicians can focus on the patients not on the paperwork," he said.

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