Since 2018, more than 40,000 staff and providers across Vancouver Coastal Health, Provincial Health Services Authority and Providence Health Care facilities have moved from old systems and paper charts to CST Cerner.
From early December, following a pilot at BC Cancer’s Prince George centre, any facility using this shared electronic health records system can start using new functionality for eFaxing of prescriptions, for medications to be taken by the patient at home. Community pharmacists in B.C. who receive eFaxed prescriptions from CST Cerner facilities will now start seeing unique digital signatures in place of ‘wet’, hand-written signatures.