Medical staff in Nova Scotia's central zone will finally get to experience a streamlined patient records system next spring.

One Person One Record, or OPOR, has been talked about for more than a decade, and is a solution to Nova Scotia's outdated tracking systems that see health-care providers rely on phones, emails and paper records to track their patients.

Shelly McNeil, the new president of Doctors Nova Scotia, discusses her to-do list.

The president-elect of Doctors Nova Scotia said delays in a project of this scope are not unexpected.

"Implementing a modern hospital-based clinical information system is a large undertaking and will be foundational to improved patient care," Dr. Shelly McNeil said in a statement.

"We know that everyone is working hard to implement OPOR and while we would like to see the timelines met, it's vitally important that OPOR is implemented well."