Slow progress on e-health causing medication misadventures

By Harriet Alexander
Updated August 24 2015 - 10:13am, first published August 18 2015 - 9:29am
A government advisor says patient treatment is being impeded because health providers' software systems do not talk to each other. Photo: iStock
A government advisor says patient treatment is being impeded because health providers' software systems do not talk to each other. Photo: iStock

The hospitalisation of thousands of people each year could be prevented if their health providers shared information electronically, but they can't because their software systems do not talk to each other.

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