Community Information Integration (CII) and the Central Patient Attachment Registry (CPAR) - Improving Healthcare Interoperability in Alberta
January 23, 2024 | Chapter Event
Webinar
Improving Healthcare Interoperability in Alberta- CII/CPAR
Description
Community Information Integration (CII) and the Central Patient Attachment Registry (CPAR) are two award-winning initiatives that allow physicians and nurse practitioners to share patient information with other healthcare providers in Alberta directly from their clinic’s electronic medical record (EMR) system. There are currently over 2,300 healthcare providers participating in the program from 580 clinics across the province. Together they have shared over 15 million patient encounter records, specialist consult reports and operative/diagnostic reports through Alberta Netcare. They have also established patient panel and patient roster relationships for 1.6 million Albertans through CPAR. This presentation will discuss the challenges and lessons learned in developing Canada’s most extensive data sharing service for community-based healthcare providers, and the opportunities that workflow automation presents, including current development work in Alberta around electronic referral and ordering.
This presentation will discuss the challenges and lessons learned in developing Canada’s most extensive data sharing service for community-based healthcare providers, and the opportunities that workflow automation presents, including current development work in Alberta around electronic referral and ordering.
SPEAKER:
Michael McDermott
Project Director, Community Information Integration, Alberta Health
Michael has devoted his career to improving the health care system in Canada. His first involvement was hospital restructuring in south-eastern Ontario, after which he spent six years supporting informatics, health service redesign and quality improvement efforts in the Calgary Health Region. Michael then relocated to Edmonton, where he managed high-profile IT and health service improvement projects for the Government of Alberta and health regions. He moved to the private-sector to assist other organizations across western Canada as a senior consultant. Michael is currently contracted to Alberta Health as Senior Project Director for Community Information Integration (CII) and the Central Patient Attachment Registry (CPAR).
