Nova Scotia and Oracle Cerner Begin a New Era in Healthcare

Hitesh
thehealthco.info
 The Province of Nova Scotia, in conjunction with the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) and IWK Health (IWK), announced today that a new 10-year agreement has been signed with Oracle Cerner to implement electronic health records. provincewide integrated death row for more than one million Nova Scotians. This technology can help improve the way healthcare professionals use and share patient information.The new modernization known in Nova Scotia as “One-to-One Recording” (OPOR) aims to provide clinicians with easier access to real-time health information anywhere. and allowing healthcare workers to spend less time in front of computers and more time with their patients.Like many parts of the world, Nova Scotia has faced healthcare challenges such as lengthy emergency department wait times and provider waiting lists. Real-time digital mapping in Oracle Cerner’s on-site care technology can help clinicians faster and easier access critical patient information, including lab data most important experience and recent and historical imaging findings, when making decisions about the next steps of care.
“The availability of a single information system that supports our care providers in delivering safe, more timely, and connected services should improve the quality of care received by patients and families while making their journeys more seamless,”
Dr. Krista Jangaard, president and CEO, IWK Health.
Healthcare professionals in Nova Scotia’s acute care facilities can use a self-contained, digital medication management process to help reduce prescribing errors, ensuring allergy information is readily available. , which enables electronic prescription verification with the pharmacy and provides better verification documentation. This improvement in patient safety helps providers ensure that the right medication is prescribed and administered to the right patient, at the right dose, at the right time, and with the right documentation.
“The approval of OPOR is a great day for healthcare in Nova Scotia,”
“This legacy project will help ensure an integrated and standardized healthcare experience regardless of where patients are in the province. As a provider, it will give me immediate access to the information and support I need, so I can focus on providing safe, high-quality care for my patients.”
Dr. Matthew Clarke, emergency physician, Central Zone.
“OPOR will provide the foundation of digitally enabled health care in Nova Scotia. OPOR will connect our clinicians and patients across the province as we have not done before, improving patient safety, access, efficiency, and flow. It will foster health care system transformation and help propel us forward as a magnet for health care providers.”
Dr. Christy Bussey, medical executive director and hospitalist, Central Zone.
The public health solutions provided by Oracle Cerner will help focus on proactive health maintenance. These tools can help health systems know and predict what will happen in a population, motivate people, their families and care teams to take action, and manage outcomes to improve health and care outcomes. Once fully deployed, the Cerner Patient Portal will be available, making it easy for Nova Scotians to access their own health information and connect directly with their caregivers.
“Hospitals and health systems across the globe are facing many challenges that more intuitive and predictive technology can assist with,”
“We are excited for this opportunity to help Nova Scotia improve health care across their region. Our work together will help clinicians use a more open, intelligent, interoperable platform to care for the population of Nova Scotia and provide a more holistic approach to health care for patients.”
Brian Sandager, vice president, Oracle Health, Canada.
Oracle Cerner has been a trusted partner of Nova Scotia’s healthcare systems for 30 years, providing laboratory and radiological information systems. Oracle Cerner will integrate biomedical devices from across the province into patient records – including vital monitors, IV pumps and fetal monitors, as well as voice recognition software to improve workflow. physician workflow and enables fully integrated speech recognition across multiple devices and platforms.
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