HIC 2019: Royal Children's reaping the benefits from its big bang theory

Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital has seen a reduction in its mortality rate of 25 per cent since it went live with its Epic electronic medical record, and has registered similarly impressive figures for avoidable lab tests and medication prescribing and administration errors.

While the hospital is not claiming definitively that the reduction in the mortality rate is due to the EMR and may be part of an overall trend, there have been no other major interventions that can account for it, RCH paediatrician and chief medical information officer Mike South said.