The statewide roll-out of the Cerner integrated electronic medical record (ieMR) has been given a boost in today’s Queensland state budget, with $240 million promised over the next four years in additional funding and an extra $60m contingency for year five.

The ieMR roll-out was paused in 2019 in order to optimise the existing digital hospital stack just as it was set to be implemented at Queensland’s largest health service, Metro North Hospital and Health Service (HHS).