Victoria General Hospital, South Island Surgical Centre, Gorge Road Health Centre to switch at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14.
Victoria General Hospital is gearing up this month to activate a fully computerized system for health records and for sending and receiving instructions, following a similar shift at Royal Jubilee Hospital in June, and at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital eight years ago.
Marko Peljhan, Island Health’s vice-president of clinical services for central and south Vancouver Island, said months of planning and simulations go into such a massive changeover. Peljhan said there will be a 24/7 operations centre starting Sept. 13, the night before the switchover, that will remain in place for several weeks.Dr. Brian Mc Ardle, medical director and chief of staff at Royal Jubilee Hospital, said physicians and staff will face delays during the switchover, but patients will still get quality care.
No matter how much preparation is done, the real lessons are learned “when the rubber hits the road” and so for this next transition, staff will rely on lessons learned at Jubilee, he said. “With the fully electronic record, the orders that are entered are visible across all care teams, things are processed more efficiently, there is less room for error, so it results in better, more transparent and safer patient care.”
Most hospitals on Vancouver Island already keep an electronic health record on patient histories. The change now, called “computer provider order entry,” has clinicians ordering medications and tests via computers rather than written notes.
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