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...
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...
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...
After COVID-19, screens and phones will remain vital to care, experts predict Imagine… using a computer and webcam to remotely diagnose a serious medical condition. Or give breastfeeding advice to a new mother. Or help a stressed-out teenager manage his anxiety. It...
In mid-April, six weeks after giving birth, Nicole-Ann Shery cradled her daughter, Kayla, in her arms and huddled at home in front of her computer screen for her final—and sometimes joyously tearful—post-partum visit with Kathleen McDonald, the midwife who had coached...
Past successes and future challenges highlighted at CIUSSS Public Information Meeting CIUSSS West-Central Montreal is charting new directions in health care and social services by balancing “the innovative use of digital technology with an individual’s need for...