B.C. orders review of health record keeping system

The Vancouver Sun published a Times Colonist story on the upcoming review of a controversial electronic health record system. The review will be led by a UBC professor.

Dr. Doug Cochrane, patient safety and quality officer for the province, is a practising physician and a UBC neurosurgery professor. The current system will continue to be used unless Cochrane recommends otherwise.

Doctors have said the system software cancels, overrides, changes or doubles some drug orders and crucial physician instructions.