Macquarie University Hospital has set up a cashless payment system for its patients. They will use pre-paid contactless cards to pay for food, phone calls, etc around the hospital. The cards will also work with bedside terminals which track patient care.
Macquarie opened last year as a 'paperless e-hospital' and this initiative is all part of that. The hospital also digitised all its records, which doctors can now access securely using contactless cards.
The hospital's CEO, Mike Rawston, joked that not everything is so hi-tech though. They installed their 9-tonne MRI machine by dragging it across the floor with "15 guys using 3 ropes".
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