Connect Care aims to bring staff and physicians at healthcare sites onto a common provincial information system.
Alberta Health Services completed its eighth launch of Connect Care, which aims to bring staff and physicians at healthcare sites, including two Covenant Health sites in Central Zone, onto a common provincial information system.
The Connect Care initiative supports best practices across AHS, and enables health records from AHS and its subsidiaries and partners to be accessed through one system. It also provides clinicians with common decision-making support, AHS said in a media release on Saturday.
“Each Connect Care launch brings more front-line healthcare workers, physicians and patients together to give healthcare teams a more complete health history for patients, access to consistent information on best practices and resources at their fingertips, while improving our ability to keep information private and secure,” said Athana Mentzelopoulos, AHS president and CEO.
“Healthcare teams can also communicate with patients and each other more easily.”
The eighth launch of Connect Care involves all five AHS zone across 129 towns and cities in Alberta. There are now more than 118,400 staff, physicians and other healthcare providers using Connect Care.
There will be a total of nine Connect Care launches. The launches started in November 2019 and will continue to the final implementation in fall 2024. When fully in place, approximately 125,000 staff and physicians will be using Connect Care at 682 sites across Alberta.
Albertans who have visited a site where Connect Care is in place can access MyAHS Connect, an online patient portal where people can see their health information, test results and medications, manage appointments, and communicate securely with their AHS healthcare team.
The new Connect Care facilities transitioned to the new information system at 5 a.m. Saturday.
“Connect Care helps AHS physicians and other healthcare