The Huron-Perth Healthcare Alliance working on a new system that will reduce mistakes and make record keeping easier in hospitals.
Chief of Staff Dr. Laurel Moore said doctors have been keeping notes electronically for some time now but in the hospitals, things like progress reports and orders are still handwritten.
Moore said the implementation of the computerized order entry is coming.
“We'll be able to know how many people were prescribed a certain drug and how many of them left with a prescription," said Moore. “Right now we're working on just getting everybody to document, electronically for their progress notes and their histories and their physicals and we're also looking at front-end dictation, which means that's like voice recognition."
She said the dictations will be done in real time and they'll edit them as they go.