ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL
state-of-the art hospital , delivered as a Public Private Partnership under the State Government ’ s Partnership SA Model and forming part of the South Australian reformed health system , will provide world-class care for the people of South Australia .
Rooms with a view But more than this , it can lay a justified claim , at least for the moment , to deliver the most technically advanced healthcare in the world , including complex medical , surgical , diagnostic and support services and ‘ super speciality ’ services including renal transplantation , major burns , and complex spinal care . The new hospital takes over all the services of the current RAH and some of the more complex services from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital . It will also provide high quality teaching and research facilities . “ We don ’ t
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Number of Employees at SA Health
expect the new RAH to rank as the world ’ s leading high-tech hospital for long ,” says Bill Le Blanc , CIO of SA Health . “ Technology advances fast these days and each new hospital project learns from the last and leapfrogs to the front .”
Le Blanc is responsible for all aspects of ICT across the whole of SA Health , leading a division of 700 ICT specialists with responsibility for capital and operating budgets over $ 240m annually . Thirty years ago , when medical technology was emerging , the IT team was still looked on as the backroom boys and girls of healthcare , whose main job was to keep the lights on . The new RAH , since the project was started 10 years ago , has grown up in a different universe , one in which every stage of planning is strategically directed by a partnership of IT and medical professionals .
“ The technologies themselves
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