This appeared last week.SA Health hopes new hardware will fix sluggish EPASBy Paris Cowan on Feb 8, 2017 12:08PM Publishes data centre shopping list to cure doctors' frustration.South Australia’s health department hopes replacing the hardware underpinning its notorious patient administration system will end bedside frustration felt by the state’s doctors and specialists over the sluggish platform.The $422 million electronic patient administration system (EPAS) is currently used by about 8000 SA health workers in the seven health regions that have been part of the rollout to date.But in many cases it hasn’t been the blessing doctors were promised, as they struggle with workstations that have a tendency to crash if users switch between EPAS screens too quickly, long waits to change between EPAS modules, and up to two outages a day.In November last year, the system suffered a nine-hour outage that health officials blamed on a piece of rogue software eating up all its compute...
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