Woodstock General Hospital has become the first regional hospital in Canada to incorporate a Cerner's CareAware iBus software on their Xprezznet bedside monitors.
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Clinical Informatics Specialist Julie Housworth says the monitors in the hospitals anaesthesia care unit displays a patients vitals after surgery and automatically documents them on the electronic health record.
The technology first went live in the hospitals post anaesthesia care unit on March 30th 2017. The hospital plans to introduce the technology to the monitors in the emergency department in the near future. The hospital also plans install the software on IV pumps and vitals machines.
Housworth says we can expect to see this technology pop up in other nearby hospitals in the next couple of months.
"This was a regional project amongst the other regional hospitals that we share the electronic health record with such as Tillsonburg, St Thomas, Listowel, Wingham and Strathroy to just name a few. We're the first so the rest will be going live later this year; probably June."


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