I noted two major outages reported this week.First we had this:System crash causes chaos at Monash Health's emergency wardsBy Allie Coyne on Aug 22, 2016 1:00PM Staff forced to resort to manual lists.Monash Health's emergency departments were thrown into chaos over the weekend after its electronic patient management system fell over throughout Friday and Saturday.Hospital staff were forced to resort to manual paper lists to keep tabs on who had entered the department and for what ailment, with some patients forced to wait as much as 12 hours to be treated.Monash Health implemented the "Symphony" electronic patient administration system across its three emergency departments - Monash Medical Centre Clayton, Dandenong Hospital, and Casey Hospital - during 2008-09.Symphony is a product made by healthcare systems vendor Emis Health. The system handled 206,602 patients passing through the three emergency departments in the year ended June 30 2015.More...
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from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2cies26
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
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