The Queensland government has allocated an extra $56.7 million over two years in today's state budget to continue the roll-out of the state's integrated electronic medical records program (ieMR) with a view to having the Cerner system up and running in 24 hospitals by 2020.

Announcing an overall health budget for 2017-18 of $16.6 billion, Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick also announced $112.2m over four years for forward planning on the redevelopments of Logan, Caboolture and Ipswich hospitals and $128.4 million over four years to redevelop or replace Kingaroy, Blackall and Sarina hospitals.