care being delivered and reduced adverse events occurring. In addition, there would be a saving of time and resources and benefits in terms of autonomy and financial benefits to the healthcare facility/organisation. Benefits of CDSS combined with EHR A successful CDSS/EHR integration will allow the provision of best practice, high-quality care to the patient, which is the ultimate goal of healthcare. Errors have always occurred in healthcare, so trying to minimise them as much as possible is important to provide quality patient care. Three areas that can be addressed with the implementation of CDSS and Electronic Health Records (EHRs), are: Medication prescription errors Adverse drug events Other medical errors CDSSs will be most beneficial in the future when healthcare facilities are "100% electronic" in terms of real-time patient information, thus simplifying the number of modifications that have to occur to ensure that all the systems are up to date with each other. The measurable benefits of clinical decision support systems on physician performance and patient outcomes remain the subject of ongoing research. Barriers Implementing electronic health records (EHR) in healthcare settings incurs challenges; none more important than maintaining efficiency and safety during rollout, but in order for the implementation process to be effective, an understanding of the EHR users' perspectives is key to the success of EHR implementation projects. In addition to this, adoption needs to be actively fostered through a bottom-up, clinical-needs-first approach. The same can be said for CDSS. As of 2007, the main areas of concern with moving into a fully integrated EHR/CDSS system have been: Privacy Confidentiality User-friendliness Document accuracy and completeness Integration Uniformity Acceptance Alert desensitisation as well as the key aspects of data entry that need to be addressed when implementing a CDSS to avoid potential adverse events from occurring. These aspects include whether: correct data is being used all the data has been entered into the system current best practice is being followed the data is evidence-based A service oriented architecture has been proposed as a technical means to address some of these barriers. Status in Australia As of July 2015, the planned transition to EHRs in Australia is facing difficulties. Most healthcare facilities are still running completely paper-based systems; some are in a transition phase of scanned EHRs or moving towards such a transition phase. Victoria has attempted to implement EHR across the state with its HealthSMART program, but it has cancelled