What We Do for Health Care
As of July 2007, SSHA has contributed information technology to the following patient care improvements:
Emergency Department Access to Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) patient information
In 2007, 4,600 hospital staff at 185 hospital Emergency Departments viewed prescription information of 600,000 patients from the 2.2 million Ontario Drug Benefit Program recipients.
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Patient-Health Care Professional Video conferences
SSHA provides data centre hosting and network services that support the growth of the Ontario Telemedicine Network:
Number of patient video conferences |
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| 2003/04 | 3,500 |
| 2004/05 | 15,500 |
| 2005/06 | 23,500 |
| 2006/07 | 32,000 |
Caring for newborns
130,000 newborns every year and their mothers have their care co-ordinated by 2,200 public health nurses using a shared program hosted in SSHA's data centres and available over ONE Network.
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Paperless physicians
1,500 physicians electronically chart patient records using SSHA services. More are signing up.
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Long-term care facility admissions
17,000 assessments are performed every month on home care recipients for entry into long-term care facilities using a shared program hosted in SSHA's data centres and available over ONE Network.
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Fighting disease outbreaks
2,000 public health workers use a common computer application hosted by SSHA to fight disease outbreaks – a key improvement following SARS.
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SSHA was created in 2003 to electronically connect health care professionals to each other and to patient information – across the health care system. More reliable and quicker access to information means better care for all of us.
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Who uses ONE products and services?
- 100% of Ontario Public Health Units
- 100% of Ontario Community Care Access Centres
- 100% of Ontario retail chain pharmacies
- 100% of Ontario Local Health Integration Networks
- Provincial wait list services: Cancer Care Ontario,
Cardiac Care Network, Trillium Gift of Life Network - Ontario Telemedicine Network
- A growing number of physician offices and
continuing care organizations. Currently, deployment is:- 1, 500 physicians (8% of total)
- 1,400 continuing care organizations (45% of total)
ONE Network Site Connections
Overall Goal: 24,000 publicly-funded health care sites
How is ONE Network Different from the Internet
ONE Mail Accounts
Overall Goal: 150,000 people working in Ontario's
publicly-funded health care system
Full details on the status of all SSHA product deployments, review the ONE Product Highlights Chart.
Helping to reduce wait list time
Since 2003, SSHA has provided Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) access to its ONE Network service to more quickly and cost-effectively collect data from donor and transplant hospitals.
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transplants | 693 | 727 | 765 | 875 | 926 |
| Organ Donors | 408 | 427 | 469 | 545 | 531 |
| Waiting List | 1,913 | 1,857 | 1,720 | 1,745 | 1,676 |
What's Next?
Our work today will support:
- Electronic Access to Lab Information
In 2007, the first hospitals started using the Ontario Laboratory Information System to order tests and receive results. The goal is to reach 100% of health care providers who rely on laboratory tests.
- Linking Patients to Hospital Records
SSHA is responsible for a client registry that allows patient identifier records from different hospitals to be linked.