The extra time afforded by the recently announced delay in opening the new Royal Adelaide Hospital (new RAH) may prove a godsend for the roll-out of the planned closed loop medications management system, but may also see the new enterprise pathology system implemented at another hospital first.

A report by the South Australian Auditor-General Andrew Richardson tabled this week has highlighted the complexity of the state's eHealth program, with the difficulties being faced by the troubled Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS) and the move from the current building rescheduled to November 2016 having flow-on effects on both the new Enterprise Pathology Laboratory Information System (EPLIS) and plans for a closed loop medications management system.