Three years into his job as the steward of Ontario’s electronic health records program the head of eHealth Ontario said the organization has learned three valuable lessons about technology deployment that would help them deliver on a promise to have the health records of every Ontarian in digital form by 2015.
Topmost among these lessons, according to Greg Reed, CEO of eHealth Ontario, was accepting that the organization can’t go it alone.
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“It was a lot of work. We not only had to do our regular work of gathering information but, at the same time, use a new, time-consuming, often non-intuitive, mega-multi-step EMR system to get our work done,” he said. “But it lets us provide far better care, because we’re making decisions based on much better information than we used to have.”
But it wasn’t as simple a job as it sounds.
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Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is part of Ontario’s eHealth initiative and there is a movement afoot to have all patient records digitized by 2015.