Rural GPs in South Australia have again raised the alarm over problems with the Electronic Patient Administration System (EPAS) being rolled out to SA hospitals, leaking a letter to the media that lists a host of problems with the under-fire system, from unintuitive screens to excessive time for progress notes to real dangers from medication drop-down menus.
The Adelaide Advertiser reported today that the Flinders and Far North Doctors Association (FFNDA) had written to SA Health CEO David Swan outlining 37 different problems they had experienced with EPAS, following two years of using the system at Port Augusta Hospital.
