As part of its IMPACT project to advance into the digital age of medicine, Delray Medical Center has begun implementing a new computerized electronic patient records system. This advancement will reduce the hospital’s reliance on paper records, moving the hospital’s record system to primarily electronic. This new records process means increased patient safety, efficiency and improved access to patients’ medical records by their physicians and healthcare providers. Hospital staff and area physicians have been in training for several months in readiness for the transition.
Information will no longer be handwritten, but keyed in electronically, making patient information available in a timely manner, legible and kept up to date constantly throughout a patient’s stay.
