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The connectivity strategy defines the path to connecting a patients’ health information to their care team. Its focus is identifying the sources of digital health information in Ontario, making it sharable with through integration with electronic record assets, and delivering it to the people who need it. It outlines current and futures states of the electronic health record and the transition between the two. And it describes how health care information will be connected to create an integrated electronic health record – one that provides a lifetime record of an individual’s health history.

Based on extensive consultation and contributions from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and a wide-range of stakeholders including clinicians, the strategy was designed to inform investment and integration decisions. It illustrates how local and regional health information technology solutions need to integrate with provincial assets to become part of Ontario’s electronic health record. Major themes include consistency and reuse, health care industry trends, health informatics standards, and common specifications.

The strategy identifies provincial assets that stakeholders can combine with local assets to address their own health care challenges, as well as services provided by Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centre, Cancer Care Ontario, and Ontario Telemedicine Network that could be leveraged to address broader provincial needs. It emphasizes reuse, standardization, and leveraging investments made to date, while providing a transition plan to the future state of the electronic health record.

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Connectivity Strategy

Designed to inform EHR investment and integration decisions, provide a framework for discussion, and offer practical guidance and resources for EHR integration across the province.

Digital Health Connectivity Requirements for POS Procurements

Describes provincial electronic health record (EHR) connectivity requirements to be used by health care stakeholders in the procurement of point of service (POS) systems.

EHR Interoperability Plan

Our EHR interoperability plan identifies the integrations between data contributors and consumers required in order for every Ontarian’s full provincial electronic health record to be accessible.

Provincial eReferral Conceptual and Information Architecture Report

Describes a proposed conceptual architecture for a provincial eReferral system that respects existing regional investments and includes a high-level business overview, business requirements, supporting information architecture and deployment priorities.

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