TORONTO – MEDITECH’s interoperability solution, Traverse Exchange Canada, went live in February, enabling the free flow of patient health information across participating platforms, care settings, and other vendor systems. The initial waves of organizations connected on the cloud-based network include four Ontario hospitals using MEDITECH and 65 long-term care sites using the PointClickCare EHR.
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CORNWALL, Ont. – Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) is proud to announce that it is now facilitating the secure two-way transfer of patient electronic health records with local Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities throughout the City of Cornwall, the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, and Akwesasne, thanks to the Ontario eHub health information exchange system.
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TORONTO – Topology Health, a Toronto-area startup, has created an innovative, AI-powered toolkit that enables healthcare providers to quickly connect new applications to their electronic health records – often within just a few hours. The company is now testing the application at two hospitals in Canada.
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KITCHENER-WATERLOO, Ont. – Ontario eHub, a partnership between TransForm and Project AMPLIFI, reached another significant milestone in the pursuit of coordinated patient care in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. As of October 19, 2023, Grand River Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital have joined the Erie St Clair, London, Cornwall and Grey-Bruce regions in going live on the Ontario eHub, marking a crucial step forward in the seamless sharing of patient data.
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WINDSOR, Ont. – Connecting the medical records of patients across the healthcare continuum to affect better, more efficient and coordinated care has moved another step forward for hospitals and Long-Term Care (LTC) homes in the Erie St. Clair (ESC) and London region.
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CORNWALL, Ont. – Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) and various Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities in Eastern Ontario and Akwesasne are now benefitting from Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange (HIE), powered by Oracle Health in collaboration with TransForm Shared Service Organization.
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MONTREAL – To cut the time taken to move patients experiencing a heart attack from home to hospital and into the angiography suite, the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) has partnered with Stenoa on a platform that integrates and coordinates care among different parts of the system.
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TORONTO – To help improve patient care through better information access, a group of 21 Ontario-based hospitals and facilities are now benefitting from Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange (HIE) powered by Oracle Health. The Ontario eHub can help these healthcare organizations share patient data more easily and securely, reducing administrative overhead, and facilitating improved care coordination for patients.
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Thanks to a series of innovative collaborations under way in Ontario, health records are starting to follow patients as they transition between hospitals – without the need to fax. It’s a lesson in interoperability that requires vendors, users and governments working together at multiple levels. The first goal is to achieve data sharing between hospitals that are using the same electronic health record; the next step is to facilitate widespread data sharing between the three leading vendor platforms – Epic, MEDITECH and Cerner – as well as between each health record and PointClickCare, the long-term care record widely used in the province.
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – In partnership with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital has launched one of the first electronic health record (EHR) integrations that enables the sharing of patient information between pediatric hospitals using the Epic and Meditech health information systems.
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