In a statement, the hospital system said "decisions made across the market are always led by what's best for our patients." ...

Medical records, pathology reports and images are usually stored on separate databases in different hospital departments and labs, which can make it difficult to share the data they contain.

Over the course of 1 year, they collected four samples from five different hospital departments: Intensive care, general medicine, haematology, a short-stay unit, and a microbiology laboratory.