A percentage of the $524.6 million that has been proposed for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in the 2019 national budget is set to be used for the introduction of electronic medical records at the institution.
Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence told the National Assembly on Thursday that the health sector has started to test the Government Health Information System (GHIS) at the East La Penitence Health Centre, which is being used as the pilot to roll out Guyana’s first paperless health facility.
The GHIS, Lawrence explained, is a single electronic medical record platform that will capture pertinent patients’ information, including demographic data, medical history, clinical treatment data upon entry, thus eliminating the need for paper-based documentation.
