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What's more, "e-health" has become synonymous with government boondoggles. The country has spent $4 billion on the endeavour, but e-health initiatives in Ontario, B.C., N.B. and P.E.I. have all been accused of mishandling the awarding of contracts and having little to show for the amount of money invested.
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Electronic medical records and other digital technologies have the potential to improve patient outcomes by helping hospitals identify and track infections, medication errors and other adverse events and alerting physicians to drug interactions and other problems.
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"Most hospitals have implemented technology not to address these issues but to try to either create efficiencies or get better at billing, get better at coding," he said.
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Technology is just a tool,
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The Oslo hospital's move to the digital age has also had another bonus: more efficient clinical operations enabled them to reduce the number of days patients spend in the hospital from about 5 to 3.5, Borthne said. (Although technology wasn't much help in 2011, when an increase in patient volume and staffing shortages led to several fatal lapses in patient care.)
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"One of the lessons we have learned is that a digital system is always error prone, so you can't be sure of having 100 per cent up time for any digital system," Borthne said
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