Latest 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 […]
Read moreIsland Health medical, clinical, operational and support teams are doing everything possible to respond to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and sustain the health care system in our communities. Listening to input from physicians, staff and leaders, and to relieve pressure during this particularly stressful time, we have decided to re-schedule […]
Read moreWith the help of the Doctors of BC, the MSA has been meeting weekly with IHealth leadership to emphasize the importance, value, and definition of early engagement in making the roll-out better and ultimately making their workload easier. Members of the South Island MSA have varying degrees of clarity about […]
Read moreThank you to everyone who joined last month’s South Island MSA meeting on IHealth, and especially to the Island Health leaders who presented. Please find below everything you need to relive the meeting: Meeting Presentation Minutes from South Island MSA meeting of November 3, 2020 Video of meeting: Part 1 […]
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