The Poor Old South Australian Government Seems To Be In Trouble With ePAS Again!

This appeared a few days ago:

SA Government sued for $185m over delays with new Royal Adelaide Hospital electronic health record system

Lynne Minion | 17 Aug 2017

Less than three weeks out from opening, the $2.3 billion new Royal Adelaide Hospital is at the centre of a $185 million lawsuit in the Federal Court, with builders claiming delays with the new electronic patient records system made it “impossible” for the project to be completed on time.

The Adelaide Advertiser broke the news of the case brought by two building firms that had partnered in the construction of the new RAH — Hansen Yuncken and CPB Contractors — against South Australia’s Health Minister Jack Snelling, the state of SA and the private consortium overseeing the project.

The claim lodged two weeks ago alleges the build could not be completed by the original opening date in April last year because installation of the Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS) was delayed.

“For technical completion to have been achieved under the construction contract, the state ICT was required to have been successfully installed, tested and commissioned,” the claim says.

More details here:

http://www.healthcareit.com.au/article/sa-government-sued-185m-over-delays-new-royal-adelaide-hospital-electronic-health-record

I have to say this rather looks like a bit of a ‘try on’ to me as the ePAS could hardly be installed and made operational until most of the staff were in place.

Time will tell just how successful the builders will be.

David.