The news just seems to keep coming and none of it is all that good.First we have:EPAS computer crash forces Queen Elizabeth Hospital to revert to paper patient recordsA glitch in an electronic patient records system has thrown medical care into chaos at a number of South Australian hospitals including Adelaide's Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).A software error in the EPAS (Enterprise Patient Administration System) caused the system to slow down to the point it could no longer be used.The failure lasted for about 10 hours, until it was restored early this morning.The costly shift from paper records to an electronic system across the state's hospitals has been controversial at times, and so far has only taken place at the QEH, Noarlunga, Repatriation General Hospital and at Port Augusta.During the overnight failure, one patient at Noarlunga was unable to receive pain medication.SA Health's e-health director Bill le Blanc said the crash appeared to have been the result of a highly unusual...
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from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2fH0eJw
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
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