“This publication presents the case of an electronic health exchange in Australia that has been sharing clinical data with an electronic health record (EHR) since 2005. The exchange contains a registration system, a clinical database and a communications system and uses HL7 as the standard for interoperability between providers and facilities.
As of April, 2008, there are 239 Practitioners, 2 public hospitals, 3 private hospitals, 11 allied health and community based providers and 1108 registered patients on the system.”
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Deborah Leyva, Healthcare & Technology, 10 June 2009
