Electronic health records (EHR) allow for medical care being delivered to be looked up, and the impact, which could be effective in non-communicable diseases – obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease – where today there is limited information about these diseases, which are at epidemic proportions in The Bahamas, according to Graham Whitmarsh, National Health Insurance (NHIA) managing director, as they went live with a new web-based system. The NHIA last week spoke to the move to EHR and going paperless with the system in which the medical records of each patient enrolled in National Health Insurance (NHI) will be entirely digital. Dr. Tyneil Cargill, Bay Street Medical, one of five NHI physicians that participated in the pilot system, said the new system has allowed for the transition from a pre-internet era of medical care into evolving with the internet advancements.

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