Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital has become the first in the country to achieve Stage 6 on the HIMSS electronic medical record adoption model (EMRAM) for both its inpatient and outpatient services, 10 months after going live with a $48 million implementation using an EMR from Epic.

It is also the first public hospital to attain Stage 6 EMRAM, joining the private not-for-profit St Stephen's Hospital in Hervey Bay, and the first to attain Stage 6 on the outpatient electronic medical record adoption model (O-EMRAM).