For people tired of being grilled on the same questions about their medical history every time they visit the hospital, relief is on the way.

Providence Medford Medical Center and Rogue Regional Medical Center are planning to streamline their medical records and save reams of paper by going digital.

The hospitals will implement the Epic Systems record-keeping software by April. Providence already has the system up and running at all of its outpatient clinics. “This will streamline a patient’s navigation through the entire system,” said Dr. Jason Kuhl, a family physician and the head of Medford Family Practice out of Providence.

For years, patients have complained they have had to fill out similar forms, sometimes within minutes, when moving through different departments of a hospital. Epic consolidates this information, and it is sent digitally to each department for instant access, Kuhl said.

He said the savings from eliminating record duplication will help keep health care costs in check.