Some delays expected in first stages of electronic medical records system next month.
When Royal Jubilee Hospital flips the switch for a full electronic medical records system next month, administrators say every potential crisis will have been planned for.Months of planning and simulation have gone into the June 8 implementation of the last component of an electronic system at Royal Jubilee.
The Victoria and South Island divisions of family practice sent a letter to members on May 23 warning that Island Health expects “a temporary 30-50 per cent inefficiency” in the emergency department during the transition. The letter said the situation will affect physicians in the emergency department, the rest of the hospital, Urgent and Primary Care Centres, and community walk-in and other clinics for an estimated six weeks, and an estimated 40 to 50 patients per day will need to be diverted from the ER to other areas of care.
Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, which started with electronic records in about 2016, is the only other hospital in Island Health with a fully integrated electronic medical record system.He said he understands that a physician who might have written down an instruction in five seconds will find having to go to a computer and type in an item, tick all the right boxes, and make sure it’s correct, slower and frustrating at first.
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