eHealth

Faster, safer, better healthcare

Health Professionals

With eHealth health professionals will have the correct and necessary information required to make appropriate and timely clinical decisions regarding patient care.

For Physicians eHealth will help in:

• Making appointments and storing patient information;
• Reviewing, highlighting and adding information to patient charts;
• Writing and sending referrals;
• Communicating with laboratories and other medical professionals/specialists;
• Receiving patients' lab test results;
• Receiving reports from other medical professionals/specialists;
• Monitoring and managing treatment

For Laboratory Professionals eHealth means:

• Reductions in duplicate/repeat testing (cost effective);
• Better utilization analysis (discrete analyzable data);
• Integration with financial data
• Better use of limited regional resources in pursuing a single, common lab strategy than each region pursuing its own;
• Reduced search time for results;
• Better use of physicians time through reduced number of required patient visits;
• Reduced need to handle paper; reduced lab costs;
• Improved quality and utilization of laboratory services;
• Improved planning and management decision-making with comprehensive lab information.

For Pharmacists eHealth means:

• Improved hospital pharmacy and community pharmacy information through integrated access to medication information regardless of where medications are dispensed;
• Reduced physician callbacks to pharmacists due to lack of medication profile information at point of prescribing;
• Eventually eliminating pharmacist call backs to physicians to resolve handwriting issues;
• Reduced pharmacist call backs to physicians to resolve patient financial coverage issues;
• Reduced health professional and patient time to process special authority requests;
• The capacity to identify and addressing potential medication issues at the point of prescribing rather than the point of dispensing.

With eHealth radiologists can:

• Enable more effective and efficient care delivery by connecting physicians with each other and with radiologists through seamless access to diagnostic imaging results;
• Reduce treatment delays through improved access to patient information;
• Assist Radiologists to make more informed diagnosis by providing access to complete health information and history, irrespective of where the images were acquired and the report transcribed;
• Connect Radiologists within diagnostic imaging departments so that all facilities within B.C. have access to radiologist expertise and radiologists can engage in tele-radiology.