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Health boss unsure how many patients impacted by dosage bungle blamed on Windows
- WalterGR 5y agoFTA, emphasis mine: "It was a generic issue in the prescribing software. It's a patch relating to upgrading to Microsoft 10. That's the operating hypothesis at least, but that's being checked and that'll all be part of the review."
- martyvis 5y agoFrom the article :- On Wednesday night, staff at several major public hospitals were sent an urgent memo informing them of an issue with the Sunrise EMR computer system. The system was duplicating the last digit of dosage quantities, with patients potentially receiving more than 10 times the necessary amount of medication. "It's added another digit and replicated the last digit, so if you were to have 17 milligrams, it would have prescribed 177 milligrams," SA Health CEO Chris McGowan told ABC Radio Adelaide's David Bevan.
- xyzzy21 5y agoTherac-level comp.risks continues to live on!