June 30, 2022
Central East region hospitals were running independent systems, meaning they couldn’t easily share patients' health information and sometimes the same tests had to be conducted over again. The Clinical Information System (CIS) was rolled out by seven acute care hospitals in the Central East region. It’s one of the most wide-reaching EHR systems - in terms of the number of patients served - yet to be deployed in the province. The pandemic illuminated the importance of having a shared system in place and the regional CIS provides patients with one digital record that can be shared across the seven organizations.
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