“Today we had our training in the new, read-only hospital records system. We use something called PowerChart which is employed in almost all of the hospitals run by the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA). Various sub-programs are used to input pathology info, lab values, medical imaging reports and transcribed patient encounters. We are still meant to do phone dictations to the typing pool, but they’ll appear in the chart. We hand write orders, but they are faxed to someone in the magical basement who enters them into the system (or maybe the unit clerk does it). ER triage forms are included in the system. I’m not sure how much will be in paper format, but for now, we are to have both the electronic and paper charts open in front of us when doing any record perusal.”
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Jaotte, Dr. Ottematic, 2 July 2009
