Health Minister Adrian Dix is ordering a second independent review of a controversial electronic health records system that created a stalemate between Island Health and the doctors refusing to use it. The $174-million paperless IHealth system was launched in March 2016 at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Dufferin Place residential care […]
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Nanaimo – Internists here who, for ethical (“Do no harm”) and safety reasons, refuse the computerized order entry system (CPOE) their 247-bed Nanaimo Regional General Hospital has been piloting for months, have called an emergency meeting of their medical staff association (MSA). It is scheduled for May 31. Dr. Dave […]
Read moreNanaimo, B.C. – Nine Nanaimo senior internists and intensivists who, for safety and ethical reasons, have been refusing to use an electronic order entry system their hospital has been piloting since March 2016 are now facing potential loss of hospital privileges. A May 11 memo from Island Health informed them […]
Read moreIsland Health says it will no longer accommodate Nanaimo doctors who are refusing to use an electronic system for ordering medication — a system the doctors say puts patients at risk. Nine internal medicine doctors at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital stopped using the $174-million electronic health records system at the […]
Read moreRe: “Doctors defy IHealth, dump software,” April 28. I support Nanaimo doctors who refuse to let cumbersome software interfere with caring for patients. It is unfortunate that administration places compliance and documentation above actually caring for patients. How much of a nurse’s time is spent on electronic charting now, versus […]
Read moreThe simmering controversy over the new patient-record system at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital has boiled over. Some physicians have abandoned the system, and gone back to using paper records for ordering medications and lab work. They say the software is clumsy, slow and plagued by glitches. As a result, one […]
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A Nanaimo doctor suspended for defying an Island Health order to use a new software, says he was acting to protect his patients’ safety. Dr. Paul Mitenko is one of seven internal medicine specialists at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital who went back to using pen and paper to order medication […]
Read moreSome doctors at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital are abandoning an Island Health computer system in defiance of the health authority. The doctors say the IHealth system could cause dangerous drug dosage errors. They reverted to ordering medicine and lab work using pens and paper on Thursday, after using the IHealth […]
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A specialist has lost privileges at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital after a return to a paper-based ordering system, according to Dr. David Forrest, president of Nanaimo Medical Staff Association. Forrest said a group of people in internal medicine, including himself, returned to using paper orders Thursday morning feeling they can […]
Read moreSome doctors and nurses in Nanaimo say patients are at risk because Island Health has reversed its decision to shelve an electronic system that they say can cause drug dosage errors and take time away from patient care. Island Health’s board and executive agreed on Feb. 17 to suspend the […]
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