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Laine Clark

Electronic medical record glitch hits hospitals

Some Queensland hospitals were unable to access digital records of patients for up to nine hours. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

A glitch has affected digital patient records at Queensland's public hospitals for hours, forcing staff to use pen and paper.

Up to 24 hospitals across the state are believed to have been hit by the integrated electronic medical record (ieMR) outage which started early on Wednesday.

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