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Singapore including a 1,600 bed general hospital and an 800 bed women ’ s and children ’ s hospital . Clinicians in hospitals in Singapore using Allscripts EMR are able to electronically order a number of services . They can also view results electronically from radiology , cardiology , pathology and other healthcare services . In addition , physician documentation using structured templates and the use of clinical decision support tools are available . Management of medications are simplified and controlled at many of the hospitals and healthcare facilities in Singapore using Allscripts EMR which significantly reduces the number of steps in medication administration and decreases the rate of harm from adverse drug effects .
The benefits , explains Chambers , of digitising health records is not only in reducing the number of adverse events but before EPAS , multiple tests were ordered because it was not visible to healthcare workers that there was a test ordered in another hospital or they weren ’ t able to immediately access the results of a recent test . “ The costs of some of these tests are huge so we are expecting tests costs to drop significantly ,” he said . Chambers also said that with any transformation one of the
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