THE University of Sydney removed from its website an extremely...

THE University of Sydney removed from its website an extremely critical essay about a new multimillion-dollar emergency department IT system after pressure from the NSW Health Department. .

Doctors, nurses and administrators at four area health services heavily criticised the system - which tracks patients - as posing an ''unacceptably high risk'' to patient safety because it was so slow, cumbersome and inefficient.

Some hospitals have boycotted Cerner FirstNet and reverted to paper to record clinical notes because it is too difficult and too time-consuming to retrieve critical patient information from the system, the essay said.

''In a number of cases we know senior clinicians have shut down the use of FirstNet within a few days of it coming
online,'' it said.


http://www.smh.com.au/national/health-department-accused-of-censorship-20091127-jwwm.html