Hospitals globally are in the midst of a digital transformation. The featured papers in this Special Focus comment on the challenges and considerations of health services undergoing this rapid digital transformation and discuss decision-making processes for new technologies, what can be done to maximise the benefits of digital change, and the complex challenges of implementing and examining the effects of technology.

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2020

AH19127No observed reduction of non-attendance rate in telehealth models of care

E. P. Greenup, D. Best, M. Page and B. Potts

pp. 657-660

AH19067Queensland Digital Health Clinical Charter: a clinical consensus statement on priorities for digital health in hospitals

Clair Sullivan, Andrew Staib, Keith McNeil, David Rosengren and Ian Johnson

pp. 661-665

AH18176Digital transformation of the emergency department-inpatient interface (EDii): integration for future innovation

Andrew Staib, Clair Sullivan, Cara Joyce Cabilan, Rohan Cattell and Rob Eley

pp. 666-671

AH18231Implementation pilot of a novel electronic bedside nursing chart: a mixed-methods case study

Kasia Bail , Rachel Davey, Marian Currie, Jo Gibson, Eamon Merrick and Bernice Redley

pp. 672-676

AH18218Digitising an Australian university hospital: qualitative analysis of staff-reported impacts

Rebekah Eden , Andrew Burton-Jones, James Grant, Renea Collins, Andrew Staib and Clair Sullivan

pp. 677-689

AH19157Surveying perceptions of the early impacts of an integrated electronic medical record across a hospital and healthcare service

Rebekah Eden , Andrew Burton-Jones, Andrew Staib and Clair Sullivan

pp. 690-698

AH19057Review of electronic discharge summaries from the general medicine, general surgery and mental health streams at a tertiary hospital: retrospective analysis of timeliness, brevity and completeness

Keith Potent, Benjamin Levy and Andrew Porritt

pp. 699-705

AH19255From benefits idealisation to value optimisation: application in the digital health context

Natalie Smith , Andrew Burton-Jones and Clair Sullivan

pp. 706-722