SA Health has signalled its intention to begin the full roll-out of its Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS) at Flinders Medical Centre and the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, issuing a tender for a fleet of workstations on wheels (WOWs), which are required to support the EPAS application suite of laptops.

EPAS, which has come in for more criticism recently, this time from a South Australian coroner, has been deployed at FMC in a read-only version for some time. At the new Royal Adelaide, where staff training has begun before an expected opening later in the year, the patient administration module will be implemented first before the full clinical suite goes live at a later date.