MyChart in My Life

“Peter, you are in good shape, but we’ve got to keep an eye on your blood pressure. It wouldn’t hurt to lose five or ten pounds too…”  Has your doctor said something similar to you? That’s what my primary care doctor told me when I had a physical a few months ago. All in all, … Read More

Your medical records, there’s an app for that

Gone are the days of doctors carrying armfuls of paper charts. Today, our entire Richmond health system is up and running on a state-of-the-art secure electronic medical record. We call it ConnectCare. The idea is pretty simple, no matter where you are in our system, your doctors and nurses have the information at their finger tips to provide you … Read More

Behind the Cables: IS Team Building Connections

When Memorial Regional and Richmond Community launched ConnectCare in April 2010, Ferl Howard was there — for nearly three days straight. Changes of clothes were delivered to him. Still, the Director of Information Services, End User Computing for Bon Secours Richmond, was thrilled at how well the launch went, given that he had been working … Read More