The delivery of Health Care is information-intensive business.
Western Health is using information technology to ensure that the right people have access to the right information at the right time and to overcome geographical challenges to improve the accessibility and timeliness of our services. Some key examples include:
Many of these initiatives have been undertaken in partnership with the province’s other regional health authorities and the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health information. Western Health is committed to working with these partners, as well as health care providers and the general public to use e-health to support health care providers in maximizing the quality, safety, and timeliness of health care delivery.
E-Health defined:
The application of Internet and other related technologies in the healthcare industry to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of clinical and business processes utilized by healthcare organizations, practitioners, patients, and consumers to improve the health status of patients.
As already published in HIMSS News,Volume 13 Number 7, p. 12. “HIMSS SIG develops proposed e-health definition”