http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/sa-health-to-p...

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...m/news-story/b5bde4a5a587efc943a9b0144f92c0b9

SA Health to pay $5 million for regional hospitals to use outdated computer system

• SA HEALTH will pay $5 million to continue using CHIRON — an outdated computer system — in the state’s 70 regional hospitals until at least 2020.

The software owners, Global Health Ltd, took SA Health to court last year after it continued to use the program, despite it being decommissioned by the company in March, 2015.
As part of the settlement yesterday, the State Government must pay $5 million to use the program until 2020 and $600,000 for each following year.
South Australia is the only user of CHIRON, which dates back to the 1980s.
The latest health debacle comes after the Opposition yesterday demanded Health Minister Jack Snelling abandon a trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and deal with his troubled portfolio.
The Opposition said issues plaguing the health sector included the chemotherapy dosing bungles, new Royal Adelaide Hospital development delays, ambulance ramping and the Transforming Health reforms.
TheAdvertiser this week also revealed a man had lost a testicle after being transferred from Modbury Hospital to Lyell McEwin Hospital, as part of the Transforming Health reform, although Mr Snelling said the two-hour delay made no difference to the clinical outcome.
Mr Snelling, who is also Arts Minister, was expected to travel to Scotland next week for the comedy festival.