I Would Say Queensland Health Is Taking A Pretty Risky Path With This Decision.

This appeared a few days ago.Queensland Health scraps $68 million IT projectBy Lydia LynchApril 24, 2020 — 1.17pmQueensland's Health Minister has defended his department's decision to quietly scrap a multimillion-dollar IT project.The decision to dump the $68.5 million plan to replace the state's ageing laboratory information system was announced at the tail-end of a government press release earlier this month.Queensland Health Director General Dr John Wakefield said the reason to "discontinue" the 10-year project was to "to ensure pathology services are not disrupted during the outbreak".But Health Minister Steven Miles said the project would not continue, even after the pandemic was over. " That particular project was already under review; the legacy product that is currently in all of our labs had its support period extended from 2019 to 2029."That platform is stable, it is well supported by users and so for that reason the governance board was already considering ... already... 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