It’s the start of a new era: A majority of nurses at the Jewish General Hospital University Health Centre are now recording patients’ vital signs in the Connected Health Record (CHR), a step that improves patient safety and leaves more time for bedside care. For many...
Vital Signs, a new tool developed as part of the Connected Health Record (CHR), is live on Palliative Care (B4), Family Medicine (C3) and Cardiovascular and Cardiovascular Intensive Care (K2). Clinicians are now able to enter patient signs manually, or...
Staff members from throughout the Jewish General Hospital were invited by the Connected Health Record (CHR) team to give their input into the program as part of the “working groups” phase of the CHR’s development. The purpose of the working groups is to allow staff...
Getting a complete, unified picture of a patient's care trajectory can sometimes be a real headache. But now, these challenges are fast disappearing for Dr. Roland Grad, a family physician in the Goldman Herzl Family Practice Centre at the JGH. The key to this major...
What’s nearly as hard as building the Connected Health Record? Getting staff in our CIUSSS to embrace it. Why? Because change of any kind—plus the uncertainty of the unknown—can be unsettling for some people. That’s why a change-management team has been...
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Warshawsky on his appointment as our CIUSSS’s Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). Dr. Warshawsky will ensure that physicians and clinicians throughout the CIUSSS are informed about and participate in the strategic planning...
Address by Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg marks launch of CIUSSS’s official commitment to Care Everywhere The digital transformation now being undertaken by some of the world’s leading healthcare institutions, including CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, will result in nothing...
Project will create a single uniform health record accessible at all CIUSSS sites To improve the quality of health care and social services, and to ensure that clinical staff have prompt access to accurate health-related data, an ambitious project has been launched to...