Dr. Brendan Murphy:

My experience is in the acute care setting. I am a paediatrician and neonatologist. In the acute setting of acute maternity care for mothers and newborns, the advantages of the digital record speak for themselves. It provides immediate access to a record across the healthcare team, with multiple users having access to that information to provide care at the same time. It allows for communication across the record across locations. Essentially, it makes it possible to move information rather than, at times, moving critically ill patients, for example. We have had multiple examples of that in terms of mothers and newborns across the four live sites.

Currently, the potential to move and share information rather than moving patients is a very real advantage with immediate access to care.