Description

Electronic health record (EHR) systems offer more effi cient means of delivering quality-ensured healthcare services and promoting collaborative clinical research. EHRs consist of data pertaining to “all aspects of care” (such as genomic test results, diagnoses, medication, laboratory test results, and imaging data). According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (www.abs.gov .au), Australia’s population is more than 23 million; if the average EHR data fi le is 1 gigabyte, total EHR data for the country is at petabyte scale.