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JAMAICAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH

Five Hospitals to go on-line

Article taken from The Gleaner, a Jamaican Newspaper
Thursday, April 24, 1997

Within the next four weeks, some health workers will only have to tap a computer key to display vital information on a patient being admitted. At least, this will be the modus operandi in five public hospitals - Cornwall Regional, Kingston Public, St. Ann's Bay, Mandeville and May Pen hospitals.

"So that if you go into hospital at Cornwall Regional and have to be transferred to the KPH (Kingston Public Hospital) it will be possible on-line, to transfer your patient record, so the risk of getting records lost in transmission, et cetera, should be less," Health Minister Dr. Peter Phillips said.

The contract signaling the implementation of this Patient Administration System was signed yesterday by Dr. Phillips, Canadian High Commissioner Gavin Stewart and Ron Hebert, President of Heron Corporation, the Canadian company to which the work has been sub-contracted. Interface Consultants Limited are the local suppliers of the software.

The contract valued at more than US $306,000 will be done through the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), a company wholly owned by the Government of Canada and reports to the Parliament through the Minister of Public Works and Government Services. Its principal objective is to facilitate export sales of Canadian goods and services through government-to-government transactions. The CCC as prime contractor undertakes to deliver products or services with obligations from Canadian suppliers.

Dr. Phillips pointed out that the Patient Administration System is one of several computerized systems being implemented by the Ministry of Health in the overall programme is the implementation of the National health Insurance Plan which was tabled yesterday in Parliament.

"We suspect that (the Patient Administration System) will make possible, not only better monitoring of the patient but also assist our efficiencies in relation to the utilization of staff and in relation to the assessment of our information as to the most cost-effective way of delivering the services in our institutions," he said.

The contract provides not only for the software but for the training of local staff.

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