A major benefit of the provincial program will be the ability to create a provincial electronic health record, a secure and private lifetime record of key health history and care for each person within the health system in Manitoba.

The record will be designed to be available electronically to authorized health care providers and the individual anywhere, anytime in support of high quality care. This approach represents a key step in a provincial strategy that is designed to address many of the current challenges facing the province.

Manitoba eHealth works directly with health care professionals to plan, design and build the systems that will lead to a provincial electronic health record.

The purpose of Manitoba eHealth is to provide support and solutions that will lead to a province-wide electronic health record, expected to be developed within three to five years. Manitoba eHealth was formed to leverage the resources of eHealth Services, an existing division within the WRHA. Manitoba eHealth represents recognition that the method of building disparate systems on different platforms is counter productive.

To date, eHealth Services has accomplished much including:

• Development of a multi-year Information and Communications Technology (ICT) strategy
• Establishment of a Provincial Electronic Health Record Steering Committee.
• Development of Enterprise Architecture in parallel with the ICT Strategy.

Much work has already been completed or is about to be introduced which has helped to lay the groundwork for Manitoba's Electronic Health Record Project. More detailed information is available below.

• Hospital Information System Project (HISP)
• Lab Information System (LIS)
• Provincial Client Registry
• Primary Data Centre
• Provincial Radiology Information System / Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (RIS / PACS)
• Utilization Management System (UM System)

In support of the Critical Service Redevelopment Project
The Ann Thomas Building is the new home for the Health Sciences Centre’s (HSC) critical service programs. The 286,000 square foot facility is designed to house Adult Emergency, Children’s Emergency, Diagnostic Imaging, Medical Device Reprocessing, Adult Surgery / Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), Pediatric Surgery / PACU, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Coronary Care Unit, Burn Care Unit, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pharmacy. HSC’s Critical Services Redevelopment Project is the largest health care capital project ever undertaken in Manitoba.

Manitoba eHealth worked with health care professionals at the Health Sciences Centre in the development of the four new systems to be introduced at the Ann Thomas Building.

• Emergency Department Information System (EDIS)
• Surgical Information Management System (SIMS)
• Sterile Instrument Tracking System (SITS)
• Clinical Supply Chain Information System (CSCIS)

Manitoba eHealth is in the planning stages of a number of systems and or software critical to our electronic health record.

• Hospital Information System Project (HISP)
  • Provincial HISP / Long Term Care Planning
• Provincial Lab Information System
• Security Planning
• Manitoba's Electronic Health Record Project