– Bill Le Blanc , Executive Director and CIO , SA Health
ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL
“ We are getting early feedback from doctors that CDI technology is already helping them make better-informed clinical decisions , resulting in better outcomes for the patients ”
– Bill Le Blanc , Executive Director and CIO , SA Health
environments are so complex that you have to have a consortium of service partners who can assist you . We are physically a long way from the rest of the world here – if something goes wrong we can ’ t wait a couple of days for someone to fly out from Europe or the USA - we need local partners on the ground and that comes into the selection criteria as well .”
So , an overseas technology supplier needs to be able to give strong local support . “ One of the advantages for us in using that local offering is its tight integration with pharmacy reimbursements through our Medicare system which is more difficult for an international provider to keep up with ,” Le Blanc observes . Examples include DXC Technology , which provides the iPharmacy pharmacy management system used by the new RAH in common with hospitals across Australia ; Allscripts , the partner for electronic medical records and patient administration ; Carestream for the medical imaging system and Cerner ’ s Millennium pathology system . “ As far as possible we try to draw a straight line from any technology to show how that contributes to patient
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