Kern Medical Center Goes Paperless

When you think of hospitals and doctors, you often think of paper charts and records. But that won't be the case anymore for Kern Medical Center.

Friday, KMC announced its implementation of a new electronic record keeping system. It may not seem like a big deal, but it's expected to make a world of a difference to the hospital staff and patients.

Currently, KMC processes about 400 charts per day. Each chart can contain up to hundreds of pages in medical records. But all that would be condensed into the electronic system and accessible at the click of a mouse.