HEALTHCARE
“ We have had very few issues and we have managed them without affecting our service to the public : I am smiling from ear to ear !”
Bill LeBlanc , Executive Director and CIO , SA Health
“ I started my career in IT at a hospital about 34 years ago and I worked there for four years , went into the private sector and then came back here in 2013 in my present role . When I started the IT was a back-office support function . It supported patient demographics , when they came in and left , what beds they were in etc but the medical notes were largely on paper , the biomedical devices were standalone electronic devices . These days you have convergence of technology , computer controlled biomedical devices and digitised electronic medical records . People at the sharp end of the business , delivering services to patients , now rely on technology to do their daily tasks . Ten years ago , if the technology went down there was little risk of patient harm . Now that risk is real and present . The mission critical nature of technology today has changed the role of the CIO in healthcare .”
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