Thursday, September 19, 2024
Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, Canada, has gone live with a new Meditech Expanse electronic health record, taking to YouTube to share details of the transformation, roll-out, and impact. Fraser Health Authority, the British Columbian health authority incorporating Royal Columbian, said that the new EHR “allows health care staff […]
Unity Health Toronto is preparing to launch its new Epic EPR, due to go live in November 2024, following “an extensive procurement process” involving more than 500 staff, clinicians, patients and stakeholders from across the organisation. Implementing a new EPR formed part of Unity Health’s strategic plan for 2019 – […]
The Victorian Department of Health in Australia has accepted 26 recommendations from an Expert Advisory Committee, developing a Health Services Plan outlining the key steps to be taken toward a “more connected system” that focuses on delivering “the right care, at the right time, in the right place” for residents. […]
In the US, MEDITECH has launched a new EHR-agnostic health information exchange network to facilitate health data sharing between organisations, focusing on bringing together data to offer a “comprehensive view” of patient history and enable patient health records to follow them wherever they seek care. The network, Traverse Exchange, also […]
Albany Med Health System has shared the latest on progress with its electronic medical record journey with Epic, welcoming new features and preparing to expand the platform across more hospitals in the network by this autumn. Following Albany Medical Center’s go live of the Epic solution in March this year, […]
In Canada, Island Health has announced the go-live of its new electronic patient record with hopes of enhancing patient experience “through improvements to the quality, safety, and consistency of patient care”. Hospitals within the Island Health healthcare authority are expecting benefits including real-time information on patients for care teams, less […]
The Gauteng Department of Health (DoH) in South Africa has begun the process of digitising patient records within its public hospitals, setting a target for 800 million to be digitised over the next three years as a “minimum”. The initiative forms a part of the DoH’s wider aim to expedite […]
In a LinkedIn post, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has announced that its new children’s hospital will be “fully digital”, equipped with a new electronic health record (EHR) and using tech for the management and delivery of health services, “moving from old paper-based systems to digital systems”. CHI refers to Project […]
Emory Healthcare has announced its deployment of the Epic electronic health record (EHR), with MacBook Airs made available to “thousands of clinicians” to support accessing of patient records via the platform. The organisation reports savings of “$300 per device per year in software licensing and support costs, adding up to […]
In the United States, the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have announced the launch of a shared electronic health record system at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell FHCC) in North Chicago, “completing the military’s adoption of the system and moving the VA a […]
