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Queensland Health IT bungle leaves hospital low on supplies, costs taxpayers $33m to fix, says Auditor-General – ABC News
The bungled rollout of a Queensland Health online ordering system left hospitals low on critical supplies and cost taxpayers $33 million to fix, says the Auditor-General.
The bungled rollout of an online ordering system for Queensland hospitals that left doctors without supplies, and vendors not being paid, has cost taxpayers an extra $33 million to fix, according to an investigation by the Auditor-General.
Key points:
- Staff did not know how to use the new online ordering system
- Hospitals were left without critical supplies, the report found
- $540 million of vendor invoices were paid late
The review found the financial software…
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