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Title: Canadian eHealth Landscape


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Canadian eHealth Landscape
  • Lydia Lee
  • eHealth Lead, Toronto Central LHIN Chief
    Information Officer, SIMS VP CIO, University
    Health Network

April 3 2009
2
Contents
  • Canadian eHealth Landscape
  • Provincial Strategy eHealth Ontario
  • Regional Strategy LHIN eHealth
  • The SIMS Partnership

3
eHealth Landscape an Overview
eHealth
eHealth
eHealth
  • Providers and Provider Networks
  • Local Implementation

4
Contents
  • Canadian eHealth Landscape
  • Provincial Strategy eHealth Ontario
  • Regional Strategy LHIN eHealth
  • The SIMS Partnership

5
eHealth Ontario Clinical Priorities
Medication Management
Diabetes Management
Wait Times
Enable online prescriptions medication
history Provide decision support for physicians
ordering drugs Alert of potential adverse drug
events
Monitor patient compliance with evidence-based
interventions Alert physicians when best
practices not being followed Report on care gaps
Enable public reporting performance
management Expedite patient referrals out of
acute care where appropriate Divert ER visits to
more appropriate community care settings
ER length of stay Wait times
To Reduce
Adverse drug events Physician office
visits Hospitalizations Deaths
Blindness Heart attacks Amputations Renal
failure Deaths
To Reduce
To Reduce
Focus of ERs on urgent patients Access to
community services
To Increase
prescriptions ordered online reduction in
adverse drug events
ER length of stay Wait for post acute care
patients receiving best practice care
Measure
Measure
Measure
6
eHealth Delivery Organizations in Ontario
  • A number of organizations across Ontario deliver
    and support eHealth solutions
  • The following table lists some major (not an
    exhaustive list) delivery organizations in
    Ontario and their number of staff delivering
    eHealth solutions
  • Further research is required to identify all
    delivery organizations across the province

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Contents
  • Canadian eHealth Landscape
  • Provincial Strategy eHealth Ontario
  • Regional Strategy LHIN eHealth
  • The SIMS Partnership

8
A Joint e-Health Strategy Strategic Priorities
of the Central and Toronto Central LHINs
  • Improve the care process
  • Improve the ability to exchange information
    across the health system
  • Support patient participation in their health care
  • Support implementation of provincial e-Health
    initiatives

9
Contents
  • Canadian eHealth Landscape
  • Provincial Strategy eHealth Ontario
  • Regional Strategy LHIN eHealth
  • The SIMS Partnership

10
The SIMS Partnership
  • SIMS is the IM/IT partnership between 15 health
    care organizations in the GTA committed to
    identifying, planning, and implementing joint
    initiatives that will contribute to a coordinated
    and integrated health care delivery system
  • Alignment with Federal, Provincial, and Regional
    eHealth strategies
  • Health System Planning
  • Market Positioning
  • Strategic Architecture

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Appendix
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For More Information
  • http//www.infoway-inforoute.ca/
  • http//www.ehealthontario.on.ca/
  • http//www.lhins.on.ca/
  • http//www.simspartners.ca/

14
eHealth Ontario - Objectives
  • To provide eHealth services and related support
    for the effective and efficient planning,
    management and delivery of health care in Ontario
  • To develop eHealth Services strategy and
    operational policy
  • To protect the privacy of individuals whose
    personal information or personal health
    information is collected, transmitted, stored or
    exchanged by and through the Agency, in
    accordance with applicable law.

Source Development Corporations Act Ontario
Regulation 43/02 eHealth Ontario, Sept. 29 2008
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Local Health Integration Networks - Objectives
  • to promote the integration of the local health
    system to provide appropriate, co-ordinated,
    effective and efficient health services
  • to identify and plan for the health service needs
    of the local health system in accordance with
    provincial plans and priorities and to make
    recommendations to the Minister about that
    system, including capital funding needs for it
  • to engage the community of persons and entities
    involved with the local health system in planning
    and setting priorities for that system, including
    establishing formal channels for community input
    and consultation
  • to ensure that there are appropriate processes
    within the local health system to respond to
    concerns that people raise about the services
    that they receive
  • to evaluate, monitor and report on and be
    accountable to the Minister for the performance
    of the local health system and its health
    services, including access to services and the
    utilization, co-ordination, integration and
    cost-effectiveness of services
  • to participate and co-operate in the development
    by the Minister of the provincial strategic plan
    and in the development and implementation of
    provincial planning, system management and
    provincial health care priorities, programs and
    services
  • (g) to develop strategies and to co-operate with
    health service providers, including academic
    health science centres, other local health
    integration networks, providers of provincial
    services and others to improve the integration of
    the provincial and local health systems and the
    co-ordination of health services

Source Local Health System Integration Act, 2006
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Local Health Integration Networks - Objectives
  • to undertake and participate in joint strategies
    with other local health integration networks to
    improve patient care and access to high quality
    health services and to enhance continuity of
    health care across local health systems and
    across the province
  • to disseminate information on best practices and
    to promote knowledge transfer among local health
    integration networks and health service
    providers
  • to bring economic efficiencies to the delivery of
    health services and to make the health system
    more sustainable
  • to allocate and provide funding to health service
    providers, in accordance with provincial
    priorities, so that they can provide health
    services and equipment
  • to enter into agreements to establish performance
    standards and to ensure the achievement of
    performance standards by health service providers
    that receive funding from the network
  • to ensure the effective and efficient management
    of the human, material and financial resources of
    the network and to account to the Minister for
    the use of the resources

Source Local Health System Integration Act, 2006
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Canadian eHealth Landscape
  • Lydia Lee
  • eHealth Lead, Toronto Central LHIN Chief
    Information Officer, SIMS VP CIO, University
    Health Network

April 3 2009
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