- Secure, private, lifetime record of key health history and care for each person
- Available to health provider and patient, anytime, anywhere
- Collects information for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up care
- Information is stored, analyzed and evaluated for:
- research purposes
- surveillance
- continuous improvements
- Patient information - demographics, family history, chronic conditions (e.g. diabetes, allergies), etc.
- Medical profile - drug history, laboratory results, diagnostic images, immunizations, medical and surgical history, diagnosis, treatments plans, etc.
- Encounter history - providers, service locations, services, etc.
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- Accumulation of consistent content
- Enables queries to find patient information
- Transports information between points of care with speed, accuracy, reliability, clarity and completeness
- Enables decision support through validated scientific and business rules
- Life-long longitudinal record of clinical data for a person
- Secured and confidential access to all data
- Mechanism to support accurate, complete and timely delivery of information
- Shared access across multiple organizations and service delivery sites
- A system that is adaptive to the future of health care delivery
- Consistent standards and technologies both federally and provincially
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