Despite my hopes – SA Health has dropped back into view again this week.SA Health's Bill Le Blanc hits back at EPAS criticsHealth authority CIO responds to electronic records system doubtersGeorge Nott (CIO) 25 November, 2016 13:17 It’s been a trying few weeks for SA Health CIO Bill Le Blanc. Earlier this month he faced the wrath of medical unions and the scrutiny of the national media after a glitch caused an outage in the health authority’s electronic patient records system, EPAS.Two more outages occurred over last weekend. On Tuesday morning page three of Adelaide’s The Advertiser newspaper read “EPAS fails ‘will be fatal’”. By the afternoon Le Blanc was being grilled live on radio.“I never anticipated when I applied for this job I would have to go on radio, TV, the paper,” he said at the CIO50 awards in Sydney last night. “People screaming that IT…is basically going to kill a patient.”Speaking as part of a panel, Le Blanc held aloft the damning newspaper report before defending...
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