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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Lucy Bladen

Health bureaucrats lost sight of costs in digital health record rollout

The team behind the ACT's digital health record was focused on delivering the project without any regard to cost and were operating millions of dollars over annual budgets, audits have found.

One audit has revealed a massive blowout of more than $160 million in the cost to deliver the digital health record with the delivery and maintenance expected to cost $378 million. It was initially expected to cost $213 million.

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