{"id":29502,"date":"2017-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/thousands-left-wondering-after-sa-health-body-part-blunder\/"},"modified":"2017-06-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T00:00:00","slug":"thousands-left-wondering-after-sa-health-body-part-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/thousands-left-wondering-after-sa-health-body-part-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands left wondering after SA Health body part blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Thousands of patients will be left wondering whether their scans were done correctly after it emerged SA Health had mislabeled 300,000 medical images.<\/h3>\n<p>The mix-up has seen basic body parts wrongly identified, including wrists labeled as feet, brains as chests and breasts as heads, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/south-australia\/coding-errors-cause-300000plus-mismatches-in-south-australian-medical-imaging-data\/news-story\/02f12d131d809cb4612570fae8d35a93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports The Advertiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf the health department were a private company they probably would\u2019ve been closed down some time ago,\u201d employee advocate Gary Collis told Leon Byner on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the chemotherapy tragedies, when you look at the Oakden tragedies, now we\u2019ve got thousands and thousands of people going to wake up this morning, read the paper and then get totally stressed wanting to know whether their scans have been done correctly or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a private company, SafeWork SA would be in there prosecuting this department for the tragedies and the mismanagement that carries on and on and on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/328920339&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Sammut from the Centre for Independent Studies told Leon the burden of the blunder would be carried by \u201cpatients who now might have the anxiety of whether their test are accurate or not\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019ll be a lot of people who are now scrambling to try and get their tests redone and make sure their diagnoses are accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will put a lot of anxiety on families and the individuals as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>SA Health has exonerated itself in a two-sentence statement from consultant radiologist Dr Jim Buckley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/south-australia\/coding-errors-cause-300000plus-mismatches-in-south-australian-medical-imaging-data\/news-story\/02f12d131d809cb4612570fae8d35a93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent to The Advertiser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere was an issue identified with the mislabelling of some files during the 2015 data migration from our old radiology reporting system to the ESMI system,\u201d it states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has not impacted patient care or the ability of clinicians to appropriately treat their patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/eugene-galekovic-has-a-final-message-for-reds-fans\">GALEKOVIC\u2019S FINAL MESSAGE FOR ADELAIDE UNITED FANS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/ditched-food-van-owner-lashes-out-at-rundle-mall\"><strong>FOOD VAN OWNER LASHES OUT AT RUNDLE MALL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of patients will be left wondering whether their scans were done correctly after it emerged SA Health had mislabeled 300,000 medical images. 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