You will soon no longer need your hospital card to receive care at a CHU de Québec hospital center, Radio-Canada has learned.
This is already the case, in particular, for emergencies and hospitalizations, reports in writing François Cattapan, external communications advisor at the CHU de Québec – Université Laval, which includes the Centre hospitalier de l’Université Laval (CHUL), the Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, the Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, the Hôpital Saint-François d’Assise, and the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.
Mr. Cattapan adds that the CHU is in transitional mode in terms of identifying its clientele, urging them not to get rid of them too quickly since they are still required for appointments in external clinics. […] and outpatient sectors.
Patients should therefore keep them until the new identification process is fully rolled out, he insists.
And what will this new process consist of?
[Il] will rely on dual identification (two official identity cards) via our systems, Mr. Cattapan says. When the user is identified, we can print either an identification label, affixed to the patient file, or a bracelet, for hospitalization.
The timetable has not yet been specified, however.
We still have various tasks to do in order to coordinate the deployment of the required equipment in the five hospitals of the CHU, indicates the spokesperson.
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Almost all health establishments in Quebec use addressographs. (Archive photo)
Photo : Radio-Canada
Last February, Radio-Canada reported that addressographs, the machines used for 40 years to print information from patients’ hospital cards on medical forms, were causing headaches for health care personnel, particularly due to a shortage of ink rollers.
Forms, prescriptions… With addressographs, staff must print the raised characters of a hospital card on each page of medical records.
With the collaboration of Marc-André Boivin
