MURRAY – Several Murray-Calloway County Hospital employees are busy today making the final preparations before going online with the new Oracle electronic health record system at midnight tonight.
At noon, staff began the process of closing out patients’ records in the old Meditech system and uploading them in the new system. MCCH Chief Information Officer Aaron Rucker said they will officially shut down Meditech later tonight, but it will be a couple of hours before Oracle is ready to go online. During that down period, medical staff will use paper charts.
New patient wristbands and Care Aware devices, which are handheld devices, like cell phones, that nurses can use for charting as well as to scan wristbands and medication, were distributed to nursing stations throughout the hospital at 6:30 p.m.
