Enterprise Pathology Laboratory Information System

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (14:14): My question is to the Minister for Health. Given that the transfusion backup for EPLIS only updates every 24 hours, are clinicians expected to search through other computing systems or the machine to print results, delaying patient treatment?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:14): I can advise the house that my advice, with regard to the redundancy of the EPLIS system, is that EPLIS runs on a high availability platform with full hardware redundancy within a single data centre, which is considered the norm within Australia and internationally for both public and private pathology labs. A risk-value assessment by SA Health could not justify a second data centre.

So with regard to issues with regard to having a second data centre, the norm around Australia and internationally for both public and private pathology labs is that it is a single data centre and that a risk-value assessment—of course, we look at all these things and we weigh the risk against the value of the investment—would not support a second data centre. That's the answer to this line of questioning.