Another Digital Health Project Goes Very Over Budget And Very Late!

This popped up last week:WA's pathology provider needled for system delays, budget blowoutsBy Justin Hendry on Jun 20, 2019 6:50AM Behind schedule and risking legacy system outages.Western Australia ’s public pathology service PathWest has been blasted by the state’s auditor for the late-running and over budget overhaul of its legacy Ultra laboratory information system (LIS).The delay is also risking “potential system failure” with PathWest’s existing legacy LIS, which reached end of life a year before the replacement system project began in 2014.The state’s auditor-general said [pdf] on Wednesday that the project would be two years late and almost $24 million over budget when the system is finally deployed in April next year.But “poor budgeting and tracking” during the fi rst four years of the project meant that figure could be somewhat higher.“PathWest expects the LIS replacement will be 2 years late and cost $50.5 million, an increase of more than $23.7 million against the original... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - Category: Information Technology Authors: Source Type: blogs