Clinical Viewers for Community Pharmacies
Ontario Health offers patient health care information to pharmacies (e.g. laboratory results, dispensed medications, acute care data) through one of our two provincial clinical viewers (ConnectingOntario ClinicalViewer and ClinicalConnect) that are designated by region.
The viewers provide a dynamic, near real-time view of patients’ health information to support the delivery of pharmacy services such as medication management and counselling, MedsChecks, Pharmaceutical Opinions, and other patient care services at no cost to pharmacies.
Features
Gives health care providers timely and secure access to comprehensive patient health information including:
Provides information on your patients’ publicly funded dispensed drugs (i.e. Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) program recipients including Trillium Drug Program) and pharmacy services, as well as all dispensed monitored drugs in the province
Provides access to laboratory test orders and results from provincial hospitals, community labs and public health labs.
Comes from acute care hospitals from across the province, which provides pharmacists with discharge medication information on the treatment plan their patients left the hospital with
Benefits
- Provides comprehensive medication history for patients, which helps support the development of a Best Possible Medication History (BPMH), enhances clinical decision-making and helps improve patient outcomes
- Provides a complete history for monitoring progress of treatments and supporting chronic disease management
- Provides access to patients' current and past test results and supports treatment decisions at the point-of-care as patients move between hospitals, family physicians, pharmacies, home care and long-term care settings
- Provides access to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) laboratory test results stored in OLIS (Ontario Laboratories Information System)
- Provides important information to help pharmacists make better, faster and more informed decisions when treating their patients, and when performing MedsCheck Follow-up for transitions of care