The province’s Chief Nursing Informatics Officer says the provincial medical record system is out of date.
Alyson Lamb appeared on the 16th day of the Desmond Fatality Inquiry in Port Hawkesbury.
Lamb told the inquiry we are currently working off a patchwork of aging systems, which cannot speak to each other.
“In the Nova Scotia healthcare system, particularly from the hospital perspective, we have several quite old, non-integrated clinical systems.”
She spoke on the province’s “one person, one record” initiative, aiming to bring together all of one person’s health information into a single document.
Lamb says it’s intended as an improvement to the current system, which creates barriers between health zones, and even individual hospitals.
“Many of the systems across the province, like I said, are old,” she said. “They are in need of significant upgrade and, certainly, hence the vision of ‘one person, one record.'”
This session has finished. The inquiry will now break for a week, returning March 23.
