A Collaborative Approach to Interoperability in Canada

July 10, 2023
In Ontario, Canada, healthcare organizations across the province came together to standardize their approach to interoperability, including the use of Care Everywhere. Patient data is shared between every hospital using Epic in the area, as well as some organizations using different EHRs, improving care coordination across sites and increasing patient safety.

Recognizing the importance of seamlessly sharing patient data, these organizations—Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the Atlas Alliance (10 organizations hosted by The Ottawa Hospital), Women’s College Hospital, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH), Hamilton Health Sciences, Mackenzie Health, Trillium Health Partners, Central East Local Health Integration Network (comprising seven partner organizations), and University Health Network (UHN)—formed a collaborative to make shared decisions about implementing Care Everywhere, Epic’s interoperability platform. Using Care Everywhere, clinicians can access and reconcile patient information from outside organizations directly in the chart, so they have the right information in the right place at the right time. This eliminates the need to open a separate website or wait for a fax as they had before.

How They Did It

  • Established a patient data exchange across healthcare organizations using Care Everywhere
  • Leveraged the Ontario Epic Collaborative to standardize patient consent policies
  • Established point-to-point connections with sites that use different EHRs

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