Island Health medical students’ ER experience improved with EHR change suggested by physicians Medical students in some of Island Health’s busiest emergency departments are now able to practice their documenting skills with electronic clinical documentation, thanks to a recommendation from three ER physicians who advocated for a change to the […]
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A request from our friendly neighbourhood IHealth team: Dear Colleague, Thank you to our Medical Staff members at RJH and VGH who made the transition to electronic clinical documentation such a success. To continue improving our processes for future activations, we ask that you take a few minutes to fill […]
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Many thanks to the IHealth Communications Team for sharing this good news story from the VGH ClinDoc Go-Live. Physicians rounding together during the first days of ‘go-live’ in early October at Victoria General Hospital (VGH) were able to share perspectives from the IHealth project’s past, present, and future transition to […]
Read moreLatest Go Live Plans: Monday, October 25 – Clinical and nursing staff in Emergency Department, Respiratory Therapy, Social Work, Spiritual Health at VGH Tuesday, October 26 – All staff – medical, clinical and nursing – in Postpartum Tuesday, November 23 – All staff in Labour and Delivery Room and Antepartum […]
Read moreWe’ve just received an update about what’s happening with the IHealth Clinical Documentation rollout, and wanted to make sure you had the most current information about who and what areas are going live: October 4 –RJH All remaining acute areas including Spiritual Health, Respiratory Therapy, and Social Work. –VGH All […]
Read moreAll Medical Staff at RJH are going live with ClinDoc today. The following areas are also going live today: Emergency Department Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) Post Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Surgical Day Care Operating Room (procedure control only) If you are working in another area of RJH, nursing notes will […]
Read moreBackground: Medical, Clinical and IHealth staff at Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH) and Victoria General Hospital (VGH) are preparing for the full activation of electronic clinical documentation at both sites. Hospitals continue to experience staffing pressures and difficulty in reaching 100% completion of the required training, a key component of overall […]
Read moreSeptember 16th is “Go/NoGo” day for IHealth – the day when administration will decide whether to proceed with the scheduled ClinDoc launch at RJH on September 20th or postpone. A decision on the VGH launch will be made in late September before the anticipated launch day of October 4th. Although your voices may […]
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More than half of RJH and VGH Medical Staff surveyed are motivated to move to electronic Clinical Documentation A total of 94 Medical Staff members at RJH and VGH – or about 15% of all Medical Staff at the two sites – responded to the IHealth electronic Clinical Documentation go-live […]
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When a patient is seen in the emergency room, it is crucial that important medical information be communicated from the ER to their family physician in a timely and accurate fashion. Yet historically, emergency room physicians have relied on a carbon copy paper charting system to transmit this information, a […]
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