Frustrations hamper e-records in aged care
28th June 2013
The headache of implementing electronic health records in Australia's aged-care homes has been laid bare in an unflattering study.
Nursing staff in nine homes across NSW, ACT and Queensland have detailed 266 frustrations with their homes' new computer systems, in an apparent blow to the health profession's push to digitise patient care.
Top of the list of complaints in the study, published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics