Radiology referral guidelines go live in Australia

AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Oct 9, 2017

The first international pilot of the iRefer radiology referral guidelines in the OrderWise clinical decision support (CDS) platform has been launched at Royal North Shore Hospital in New South Wales, Australia.

The pilot brings together the eighth edition of the Royal College of Radiologists' (RCR) guidelines and MedCurrent's OrderWise platform.

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