eHealth

Faster, safer, better healthcare

B.C.'s eHealth program is about using information technology to provide the best possible patient care.

The Province has seven eHealth projects underway that that will, in a gradual phased implementation starting in 2009, bring lab results, diagnostic scans, medication histories, and electronic prescriptions online to help patients anywhere health care is delivered in B.C.

eHealth will implement secure electronic health record systems to:

• Bring better, faster, safer healthcare to British Columbians by giving authorized health professionals electronic access to secure, complete patient health records when and where they are required for delivering care.
• Assure that access to patient information will be restricted to only those having a legal right and clear need, in accordance with provincial eHealth privacy protection policies.
• eHealth will prove health information online to reduce delays, errors, test duplication and financial and environmental costs.

Why B.C.’s Health System Needs eHealth.

eHealth strategy

B.C. is participating in a ten year plan led by the Federal Government's Canada Health Infoway to create a safer and more efficient healthcare system by creating electronic health records (EHRs).

eHealth Strategic Framework [PDF 1.19M]

eHealth Overview [PDF 105K]

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