Unpublished Newswire

Patient medical records are being streamlined into a single digitized record system in Nova Scotia, preventing overlap and delays in what officials say could be a valuable model for other provinces to emulate. The new system – dubbed One Person One Record – was implemented last month at Halifax’s Izaak Walton Killam Hospital (IWK) Health Centre and is expected to go province-wide by year’s end. “The clinical information system reduces a patient’s need to repeat health history for each provider and streamlines appointment scheduling and transitions between providers and care settings...