Alberta Health Services (AHS) strives to support
the information sharing needed by the patient’s entire healthcare team, within
and without Connect Care.
The electronic medical records (EMRs) relied
upon by healthcare providers outside Connect Care settings must not be
negatively impacted as Connect Care rolls out. Instead, the clinical information
system (CIS) should expand opportunities for safe and effective information
sharing. There are a number of ways for external systems to leverage the
benefits of Connect Care.
A continuing eDelivery service brings
laboratory test results, diagnostic imaging reports and other important
information to EMRs in ways that allow the right information to be correctly
placed in the right chart. Connect Care will make eDelivery easier by
standardizing and simplifying the source for much of this information.
Physicians currently receiving any form of eDelivery will be able to access a
wider range of tests, reports and notifications as Connect Care rolls out. This
is facilitated by AHS and the EMR vendors, so there is no need for physicians
to request any expansion of eDelivery services. Physicians new to or seeking
eDelivery can learn more online.
The Central Patient Attachment
Registry (CPAR) and Community
Integration Initiative (CII), are joint undertakings of Alberta Health, the
Alberta Medical Association, and AHS; allowing EMRs to send and receive
standardized summaries of patient needs with the Alberta Netcare provincial electronic
health record. In time, Connect Care will also interface to CII and both draw
from and contribute to CPAR data.