The South Australian Department for Health expects to remediate a number of unexpected errors identified by the SA Auditor-General by March 2017, including an instance where system users are inadvertently cancelling outpatients imaging orders in the Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS), and a situation where the new Enterprise System for Medical Imaging (ESMI) is not able to effectively record radiation doses.
SA Health says its EPAS program has implemented a number of fixes to resolve issues with unresponsive or crashing devices, with a key fix implemented in August that has provided significant relief, and has also promised to increase controls for provider and prescriber numbers registered in EPAS to ensure non-clinical staff are unable to place patient treatment-related orders.
