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Board Highlights
May, 2013
Board and Committee Meetings
Visit our Board of Directors section for Board and Committee meeting dates, notices and agendas.
Please check the calendar of eventspage for Board and Committee meeting dates. Board meetings are held between 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. and are open to the public at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Dates and times are subject to change.
Board Vacancies
If you are interested in joining the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network Board of Directors, applications are now being accepted. To learn more, visit the Ontario Public Appointments Secretariat web-site www.pas.gov.on.ca and click on the advertised positions link under “popular topics.”
  
Click here for Ontario's Action Plan for Health Care:
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ClinicalConnect
Providing safer, more efficient care for more than 2 million Ontarians
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What is ClinicalConnect?
ClinicalConnect is a secure online portal that provides health care professionals, such as doctors, nurses, and pharmacists, with real-time access to their patients' electronic medical information (electronic health records) from local hospitals and Community Care Access Centres.
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This means that care providers can look up information about their patients online, review their treatment plan, medications, test results, and more. Photo: Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia demonstrates the use of Clinical Connect at the Centre for Family Medicine in Kitchener.
Who uses ClinicalConnect?
• More than 2,500 doctors and other health care providers have access and 28 hospitals across the Waterloo Wellington (WW) and Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) LHINs are connected through ClinicalConnect, representing over two million patient records.
• In the WW LHIN, six hospitals, the WW Community Care Access Centre and eight Family Health Teams have access to ClinicalConnect. The hospitals include: Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Groves Memorial Community Hospital, Guelph General Hospital, Louise Marshall Hospital, Palmerston and District Hospital, and St. Mary’s General Hospital). Work is in progress to add data from Grand River Hospital and the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre. |
What information is available on ClinicalConnect?
Through ClinicalConnect, doctors and other health care professionals have access to their patients’ medical information (electronic health records or EHRs) from local hospitals and Community Care Access Centres and cancer centre, including: when they were admitted to hospital, allergies, lab results, orders for tests, transcribed reports (discharge plans, specialist evaluations, etc), pathology, microbiology, pharmacy and prescriptions, radiology, and more. |
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Relevant Links
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For more information, or to register, contact:
Liz Nemeth, RN BScN MN
Project Manager - CARE Project
The Centre for Family Medicine
1187 Fischer-Hallman Rd Kitchener, ON, N2E 4H9
647-268-4420
http://info.clinicalconnect.ca/
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