Focus area 5 progress
This digital infrastructure will be created through the enabling of a co-ordinated and interoperable e-Health ecosystem.
Definition of phases
Progress for each action item is marked by a status along a horizontal line.
Action 5.1
Upgrade and expand the Alberta Find a Doctor platform to connect Albertans with physicians and nurse practitioners.
Action 5.1 – Project progress
Action 5.2
Set up a program to ensure that Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems used by health care providers in Alberta meet the province’s standards for sharing health information.
Action 5.2 – Project progress
Action 5.3
Speed up the expansion of a secure “health information highway” for health care providers to easily communicate, and access and share patient information.
Action 5.3.1
Set up an online service for health care providers to easily create and track referrals, and for patients to check their status.
Action 5.3.1 – Project progress
Action 5.3.2
Optimize the electronic delivery of test results and hospital reports from Connect Care to health care providers in the community.
Action 5.3.2 – Project progress
Action 5.3.3
Introduce online ordering for health care providers to request tests electronically, beginning with lab tests.
Action 5.3.3 – Project progress
Action 5.4
Improve patients’ ability to access their health information electronically through MyHealth Records.
Action 5.4 – Project progress
Completed milestones
Quarter 1, 2024-25
- Grant funding for collaboration with Zone Primary Care Network Committee to enhance Alberta Find a Doctor was issued.
- Commencement of planning on Electronic Medical Record program.
- Commencement of planning on electronic lab ordering.
Contact
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