The Netcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) offers a cradle-to-grave, read-only, aggregated view of information from multiple databases about key health events in an individual’s life; information that any health care provider may need in order to serve an individual. Among that core information might be summaries of key events such as hospitalizations, emergency room visits and operations.
The Connect Care initiative integrates information for all Alberta Health Services, partner organization and affiliate clinic sites. Previously, Netcare's access to facility information was patchy, depending upon local arrangements for things like dictation and transcription. Connect Care brings all emergency rooms, acute care facilities and major procedural sites to consistent digital documentation. This can only improve prospects for Netcare to fulfill its informational purpose.
On the other hand, Connect Care amasses huge amounts of clinical documentation. This must be carefully selected before sharing with Netcare, or the Netcare purpose could be overwhelmed by information not aligned with the EHR value proposition.
Connect Care will share summative documents with Netcare. These include emergency room reports, admission histories, discharge summaries, transition summaries, consultations and operative reports. Summative documents can stand on their own, as they pull together and appraise relevant information at a single point in time.
Connect Care will not share formative or transactional documentation. This includes progress notes, procedure notes and other documentation that cannot stand on its own, but depends upon its placement in the larger clinical information system to make sense.
Netcare's interoperation capacity needs to be enhanced to be accept all the summative documentation that Connect Care makes available. Early improvements will be noted with consistent emergency, admission, consult and discharge summary sharing. Later, outpatient consult letters will be consistently captured.
The bottom line: Connect Care will make it easier for Netcare to have complete information in the categories it collates.
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2019-09-28
Netcare Upgrade - October 10, 2019 - Note Anticipated Changes
The Alberta Netcare Portal electronic health record continues as a major hub to electronically share health information among authorized providers throughout Alberta. Netcare benefits from the integration that Connect Care brings to lab and diagnostic imaging services, as reflected in changes scheduled for October 10, 2019.
Additional information is available online and questions can be directed to albertanetcare@ahs.ca.
Additional information is available online and questions can be directed to albertanetcare@ahs.ca.
2019-08-06
How will Connect Care Relate to Netcare?
Alberta's provincial Electronic Health Record, Netcare, aggregates key health information for all Albertans and makes it available to authorized providers.
Netcare will gain from Connect Care health information services. A wider range of standardized information, conveniently sourced from a single clinical information system (CIS) will facilitate easier tabulation and graphing of test information from all parts of Alberta. Additionally, new categories of information will become available to authorized providers. For example, work is underway to improve the range and consistency of emergency visit summaries delivered, in a standardized way, to Netcare.
Netcare will gain from Connect Care health information services. A wider range of standardized information, conveniently sourced from a single clinical information system (CIS) will facilitate easier tabulation and graphing of test information from all parts of Alberta. Additionally, new categories of information will become available to authorized providers. For example, work is underway to improve the range and consistency of emergency visit summaries delivered, in a standardized way, to Netcare.
2019-08-01
Connecting for Continuity
Continuity of Care is about a patient and provider healthcare experience that is coherent, connected, coordinated and consistent with patient goals.
Connect Care will go a long way towards bringing continuity to healthcare in Alberta. Its integrated clinical information system (CIS) will replace most of the >1,300 health information systems currently in place across Alberta Health Services (AHS) and affiliated organizations. When fully implemented in late 2022, the CIS will be used by all providers where AHS is accountable for the record of care.
A variety of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) facilitate primary and specialty healthcare where Connect Care is not the record of care. Without ways to bridge these information spaces (CIS and EMR), continuity is broken.
One bridge is provided by Alberta's provincial Electronic Health Record, Netcare, which aggregates key health information and makes it available to authorized providers. Netcare is improved when Connect Care deploys because it gains a wider range of information from a single, standards-based, CIS source.
Another bridge is provided through "eDelivery" of health information from Connect Care and Netcare to Alberta EMRs. This too is improved with Connect Care. More information in a more consistent format is easier for EMRs to capture and organize.
Two new initiatives promise even better connections. AHS, the Alberta Medical Association and Alberta Health are promoting two-way health information sharing between EMRs and Netcare through "Community Information Integration" (CII) and a "Central Patient Attachment Registry" (CPAR). These allow patients to be linked to a medical home, and for that home to share information with Netcare. The CII will extend sharing to include the CIS in 2020 and CPAR will both inform and be informed by what happens where Connect Care is the record of care.
Working together, Alberta's CIS, EHR, EMR, CII and CPAR help to defragment the health information space; bringing continuity to Albertans' experience of healthcare.
Connect Care will go a long way towards bringing continuity to healthcare in Alberta. Its integrated clinical information system (CIS) will replace most of the >1,300 health information systems currently in place across Alberta Health Services (AHS) and affiliated organizations. When fully implemented in late 2022, the CIS will be used by all providers where AHS is accountable for the record of care.
A variety of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) facilitate primary and specialty healthcare where Connect Care is not the record of care. Without ways to bridge these information spaces (CIS and EMR), continuity is broken.
One bridge is provided by Alberta's provincial Electronic Health Record, Netcare, which aggregates key health information and makes it available to authorized providers. Netcare is improved when Connect Care deploys because it gains a wider range of information from a single, standards-based, CIS source.
Another bridge is provided through "eDelivery" of health information from Connect Care and Netcare to Alberta EMRs. This too is improved with Connect Care. More information in a more consistent format is easier for EMRs to capture and organize.
Two new initiatives promise even better connections. AHS, the Alberta Medical Association and Alberta Health are promoting two-way health information sharing between EMRs and Netcare through "Community Information Integration" (CII) and a "Central Patient Attachment Registry" (CPAR). These allow patients to be linked to a medical home, and for that home to share information with Netcare. The CII will extend sharing to include the CIS in 2020 and CPAR will both inform and be informed by what happens where Connect Care is the record of care.
Working together, Alberta's CIS, EHR, EMR, CII and CPAR help to defragment the health information space; bringing continuity to Albertans' experience of healthcare.
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