Journalsystemet down in the Stockholm birth – for the second night in a row – financial times

Journalsystemet on the Stockholm all förlossningsmottagningar is down – for the second night in a row.

– It may, in the worst case, be directly life-threatening for the baby, ” says a midwife at one of the affected hospitals.

Early on Monday morning, the system was still not up and running.

Journalsystemet Obstretrix transfer medical information of the pregnant woman and the fetus from maternal health to the maternity ward.

Now the system has suffered great disturbance, and been down two nights in a row.

– It started already on day on Saturday, that the system worked slow. Then it was down the whole night to Sunday, approximately between the hours of 22 and 07, says a midwife.

On the day during the Sunday system was up and running again – but in the evening it went down again.

– It was the same show again. Tough on the day and at 23, it was completely dead. We’re sitting here tearing our hair out.

but so far we have not been able to find the error – so even at 07.30 o’clock on the Monday morning low system down.

Concern that something is going to happen

journalsystemet is down, carries risks for both mother and child.

– It means that a woman comes in to the birth but we know nothing about her, ” says a midwife.

She tells the story of a tough evening. No one has come to harm, but fears that something will happen.

– A worrying example is if the pregnant woman has bacteria in the urine. It can infect the newborn infant and, if we do not give antibiotics during labor and delivery in the preventive purposes it can be directly life-threatening for the baby, ” she says.

But do not know the patients of any bacteria or other risks?
– Well, most of them. But if the woman comes in with strong contractions, it is not always easy to remember everything that we midwives need to know.

When Obstretrix is down forced the staff to write all the records to hand.

– There will be a massive work for the secretaries to enter it into the system, ” says a midwife.

another fills in:

– Would there be a fire we need to know where all is located and it is more difficult now when the system is down and we need to document hand.

"Completely dead" – for the second night in a row

According to the midwives, which the Aftonbladet newspaper spoke with, it is the second night in a row that the system is down.

Sari Ponzar, director of operations and the on-call senior physician at the stockholm south general hospital, confirmed last night that the problems persist.

– Yes, it is really, really not good. They are working on the issue both in the hospital and the it department.

Business is based on the fact that you have a working log system, but the transition to paper and there are routines for how to handle this.

the Doctor: We have no forecast

It is unclear how many mothers and children affected by journalstrulet, but according to the chief medical officer Johan Bratt, no serious incidents occurred.

This is despite the fact that all förlossningsenheter in the Stockholm county is affected.

– We do not assess that this is a serious patientsäkerhetsrisk, he says to Aftonbladet.

However, there is currently no forecast for when the problem can be solved. Practitioners will therefore continue to write the records to hand.

– We hope this will be remedied as soon as possible, of course, ” he says and adds that one "should seek medical care as usual".

January 23, 201701:15