Sunrise Electronic Medical Record

The Hon. J.E. HANSON (15:12): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding health.

Leave granted.

The Hon. J.E. HANSON: The opposition has received information to suggest that the government's electronic records glitch which saw medications prescribed at 1,000 per cent of the right dosage in fact extended even further than that. We have been informed that in March this year the Flinders Medical Centre had a number of outpatient referrals wiped from the system, with staff indeed still trying to track down the missing documents. My questions to the minister are:

1. Can the minister confirm whether or not the outpatient referrals were lost and, if so, when he was actually first advised of that situation?

2. Can the minister confirm whether or not the original dosing situation has now been identified and remedied?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:13): There were two separate sets of Sunrise issues: one was in relation to medication management and the other in relation to what I'm told was the work list manager EMR issue. As the honourable member is suggesting it does not relate to medication, I presume it relates to the second issue. I'm told that SA Health was made aware of occasions where the documentation of administered medications was not recorded as complete within Sunrise EMR, and there were medication management issues which related to intermittent dosage being changed at data entry. I don't recall being advised of impacts on outpatient appointments but I will certainly make inquiries as to whether that has been the case.