"The message that was heard around Alberta"
For a few years Alberta wellnet has been developing a system that stored all the prescriptions for all patients in Alberta, all of their allergies, and all drug dispensing events. One of the major goals was that whenever a physician prescribes a medication, the system will check for drug-to-drug contraindications and drug-to-allergy contraindications. This is not only against the drugs that you know the patient is on, but all drugs that have been prescribed or dispensed in Alberta. As you know, patients do not get prescriptions from just one doctor or pharmacy.
There has been a web interface to the provincial system for over a year. However, both physicians and Alberta Wellnet recognize that the web interface takes additional time to use because it requires double data entry. First the physician must enter information into their local EMR (Electronic Medical Record). Then they must re-type the exact same information into the patient's provincial health record. Otherwise the two sources of information will not stay in sync. Additionally, since it is a web interface, Internet access must available at all times.
Jonoke has built an EHR system-to-system interface into MediFile©. This means you do not have to do anything extra to have the prescription you write in MediFile© automatically check against the provincial system. The headaches of having to enter and retrieve data in two entirely different systems have been eliminated, yet you still have all the benefits of a province-wide patient medical record.
On July 15th at 9:58 AM, the first real message from a system-to-system interface was entered into the provinical EHR. This message was sent by one Jonoke's MediFile© clients. This interface is here – it is real, it is live, and it is working! This is a major achievement for both Jonoke and Alberta Wellnet.
Contact Jonoke today to learn more about the MediFile© system-to-system interface with EHR.