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Super Expensive Cerner Crack-up at Island Health

Paul Ramsey | Clever Elephant Blog | February 19, 2017

A year after roll-out, the Island Health electronic health record (EHR) project being piloted at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH) is abandoning electronic processes and returning to pen and paper. An alert reader forwarded me this note from the Island Health CEO, sent out Friday afternoon: "The Nanaimo Medical Staff Association Executive has requested that the CPOE tools be suspended while improvements are made. An Island Health Board meeting was held yesterday to discuss the path forward. The Board and Executive take the concerns raised by the Medical Staff Association seriously, and recognize the need to have the commitment and confidence of the physician community in using advanced EHR tools such as CPE"...

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Use of IHealth Electronic Records System Suspended at Nanaimo Hospital

Louise Dickson and Lindsay Kines | Times Colonist | February 21, 2017

Island Health has pressed the pause button on its new IHealth at Nanaimo hospital suspended$174-million electronic health-record system at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital to give exhausted health-care providers a break. On Monday, Dr. Brendan Carr, Island Health president and chief executive officer, confirmed Island Health is suspending the computerized ordering of medications, lab tests and diagnostic images on the IHealth paperless system until improvements are made...

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