Healthcare still running on paper, not platforms: report


Trish Everingham
Contributor

Australian clinicians are still heavily dependent on paper-based systems to share routine information, new government data reveals, despite a decade of investment in digital health infrastructure.

Healthcare providers still use non-digital methods around two-thirds of the time when exchanging or searching for clinical information, according to the Australian Digital Health Agency’s National Digital Health Strategy Action & Impact Report.

The report, published on Monday, shows this is worst for searching …

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