The news earlier this month that NSW Health would replace its Cerner and Orion Health electronic medical records with Epic blew every other story out the park this year, and was one of the most read stories on Pulse+IT of all time. It illustrated the dominance of stories about EMRs this year as the theme of the COVID pandemic began to wind down.
Other big stories on EMRs included ACT Health’s Digital Health Record, Queensland Health’s Cerner ieMR, the Northern Territory’s Acacia EMR and the Parkville Precinct’s Epic EMR. The Department of Defence’s Defence eHealth system replacement was also a popular read.
Virtual health was a dominant theme for 2022, particularly in the acute care sector, as was the move towards statewide electronic referral systems and state-based digital health strategies. Interoperability was also high on the agenda, as was primary care-based-telehealth.
1. NSW Health chooses Epic for statewide single digital patient record
2. Pilot of GP access to ACT Health’s new Digital Health Record
3. Elizabeth Koff to take over from Mary Foley at Telstra Health
4. Tasmania sets out bold strategy for statewide digital health transformation
5. Qld budget 2022-23: $300m for continued roll-out of Cerner ieMR
6. ADHA to release national healthcare interoperability plan, standards catalogue
7. Best Practice invests in Halo Connect FHIR-powered interoperability platform
8. NSW Health SDPR: “Funding secured” for delivery of game-changing EMR program
9. How Royal Perth and HSS devised a deceptively simple solution for electronic prescriptions
10. Katherine Hospital live with first step in NT’s $259 million Acacia EHR
11. Leidos consortium wins $329 million Defence eHealth system replacement
12. Northern Health rolls out virtual emergency department statewide
13. WA awards $39.6m home monitoring contract to Calvary Medibank JV
14. Barwon Health to roll out community EMR using Salesforce Health Cloud
15. Govt reverses course on telehealth limits, taps Healthdirect for Covid triage
16. Virtual ED for Ambulance Victoria in south-east Melbourne
17. Monash Health axes the fax for specialist referrals
18. WA Health to replace legacy SharePoint-based solution with Smart Referrals WA
19. NSW begins trial of referrals management solution
20. Parkville Precinct hospitals achieve HIMSS EMRAM stages 6 and 7 in Epic assessment
