Electronic Health Record
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Resources and Tools
Are you EMR Ready? A Pre-Implementation Readiness Assessment
Undertaken by academic researchers, “Experiences from the Forefront of EMR Use" captures the implementation experiences from 20 Canadian primary care offices in Canada. In studying the diverse clinics, from project inception to execution, it is clear...https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/stakeholder-engagement/resources-and-tools/791-are-you-emr-ready-a-pre-implementation-readiness-assessment?Itemid=103 -
Benefits Evaluation
The Value of Connected Health Information: Perceptions of Electronic Health Record Users in Canada
This BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal article summarizes the results of six provincial and territorial surveys, conducted between 2006 and 2014, about interoperable electronic health records (iEHRs): system, information and service...https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/resources/reports/benefits-evaluation/3108-the-value-of-connected-health-information-perceptions-of-electronic-health-record-users-in-canada?Itemid=103 -
Technical documents
EHR Privacy and Security Architecture (Full)
Infoway's Electronic Health Record (EHR) Privacy and Security conceptual Architecture (PSA) helps ensure that future interoperable EHR systems will comply with federal/provincial/territorial, as well as cross-jurisdictional Privacy and Security (P&S)...https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/resources/technical-documents/387-ehr-privacy-and-security-architecture-full?Itemid=103 -
Digital Health
EHR Adoption Methodology
Infoway has tracked adoption of the interoperable electronic health record (iEHR) for more than a decade. Adoption has spread from one jurisdiction in 2006 to all provinces and territories currently providing their health care professionals with access...https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/resources/digital-health/3715-ehr-adoption-methodology?Itemid=103 -
Technical documents
EHR Privacy and Security Architecture (Summary)
Infoway's Electronic Health Record (EHR) Privacy and Security conceptual Architecture (PSA) helps ensure that future interoperable EHR systems will comply with federal/provincial/territorial, as well as cross-jurisdictional Privacy and Security (P&S)...https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/resources/technical-documents/388-ehr-privacy-and-security-architecture-summary?Itemid=103 -
Technical documents
EHR Privacy and Security Requirements
This document identifies the privacy and security (P&S) requirements that an interoperable electronic health record (EHR) must meet in order to fully protect the privacy of patient/persons and maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of...https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/resources/technical-documents/389-ehr-privacy-and-security-requirements?Itemid=103 -
Technical documents
EHRS-Blueprint (v2) (Full)
The Electronic Health Record Solution (EHRS) Blueprint is a technology framework that is helping to guide the sustainable development of interoperable Electronic Health Record systems across Canada. Full report includes covering letter from Canada...https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/resources/technical-documents/391-ehrs-blueprint-v2-full?Itemid=103 -
Benefits Evaluation
Measuring Interoperable EHR adoption and maturity: a Canadian example
This BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal article examines the adoption of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) across Canada through March 2015. Nearly 250,000 clinician and administrative users, approximately half of Canada’s...https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/resources/reports/benefits-evaluation/2994-measuring-interoperable-ehr-adoption-and-maturity-a-canadian-example?Itemid=103 -
Privacy
Privacy and EHR Information Flows in Canada, Version 2.0
This paper lists 53 “common understandings” to support appropriate and privacy protective disclosures of EHR information.https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/component/edocman/resources/reports/privacy/502-privacy-and-ehr-information-flows-in-canada-version-2-0?Itemid=103