Canterbury District Health Board has gone live with the first implementation of the South Island's new patient administration system in an inpatient ward at Burwood Hospital, and has also finalised the full roll-out of CSC's MedChart electronic prescribing and administration system on the Christchurch campus.

The South Island Patient Information Care System (SI PICS) is being piloted in Canterbury at the new Burwood Hospital, which runs Canterbury's older person's health specialist services, including inpatient assessment, treatment and rehabilitation, community services and older person's mental health.