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This past week, the Leader Primary Health Care Clinic broke ground by being the first facility within the Cypress Health Region to introduce the Electronic Medical Record System.

The EMR is the newest technology designed to improve the quality of care for patients. The EMR system replaces the paper based records.

Full Interview with Greg Grant"Prescriptions can be pulled off of their history, everything. There is no flipping through charts, there is not grabbing paper records, everything is just in front," said Greg Grant, Director of Primary Health Care for the Cypress Health Region. " Maple Creek is next in line and it will be over the course of two years."

Grant added the implementation of the new EMR was extremely complex, and credits the staff for their hard work in making the transition.

"There was no noticeable difference. I just want to credit our staff for being able to adopt that technology and our staff that was involved in installation and training through E-health," noted Grant. "It's fantastic to work with everyone."

The rest of the facilities within the health region are in the process of installing their EMR systems. Leader's system was installed on January 21st.