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Media Release
September 11, 2008
ATTN: NEWS / HEALTH / TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Trillium Health Centre Wins Merit Award for Innovative Patient Information Technology
Mississauga/West Toronto: Trillium Health Centre received a Merit Award for Innovation from Showcase Ontario during a ceremony at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Tuesday evening. Trillium was honoured for its ‘Health Information Access Layer (HIAL): Towards an electronically integrated community care services model.’
Showcase Ontario, the largest public sector information technology education event in Canada, is organized by the provincial government. Winning projects had to demonstrate a successful merging of business and technology ideas to improve services to Ontarians.
“The Showcase Ontario Merit Award recognizes the unique work our Trillium team has been doing over the past four years to improve patient care through better information access,” said Benoît Long, Chief Information and Marketing Officer at Trillium. “Trillium’s e-Health strategy enables the sharing of patient information across the entire range of care providers. We are connecting hospitals, clinicians and allied health providers with patients, their families and health care stewards. We call this the Community Care Services Model (CCSM). The original decision to begin with service-oriented architecture (SOA) is key to the successes we have enjoyed along the way.”
Integrating and sharing information among care providers and patients is a big challenge for the health care system. Patient data has been captured in both paper-based and electronic formats from many systems and sources for many years.
For example, Trillium is now connected with the Summerville Family Health Team’s offices in Mississauga and West Toronto. Diagnostic test results, hospital dictations, and notifications of hospital admissions, transfers and discharges are distributed - securely and in real-time - to Summerville’s electronic chart. This process takes a few minutes or less compared with paper-based systems that took 5-8 days to deliver, collate, scan and file. Once a patient has been discharged from Trillium, the Summerville family physician is in the loop immediately to support their patient’s follow up care and return to health. Over 32,000 documents have been transferred to date in real-time since April 2008. Trillium’s HIAL allows this connectivity to be replicated to support other care providers in the community.
“Trillium’s team has developed increased expertise in project management, change management, adoption strategies, community and vendor partnerships, and benefits realization,” added Long. “It’s exciting to have built the platforms that can connect the community of care providers, and will also provide patients and families with access to their electronic health information and other trusted information resources via portals.”
For information on Showcase Ontario, see: www.showcaseontario.com/2008/.
About Trillium Health Centre
Trillium Health Centre is one of Canada’s largest community hospitals with regional programs in cardiac, stroke, neurosurgery, orthopaedic, and sexual assault and domestic violence services. Housing a model ambulatory care centre and the largest free standing day surgery centre in North America, Trillium serves over one million residents in Peel and West Toronto and from other communities across Ontario. With the continued support of the Trillium Health Centre Foundation, the hospital’s fundraising arm, the two-site facility is attracting international attention for its innovative approach to providing health care services and has received numerous national awards for quality and innovation.
For more information on Trillium Health Centre, see: www.trilliumhealthcentre.org.
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Media Contact:
Larry Roberts
Media Relations Consultant, Trillium Health Centre
office: 905-848-7580 ext. 3832
mobile: 416-358-7201
lroberts@thc.on.ca