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Title: Primary Healthcare Delivery


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Primary Healthcare Delivery First Nations Inuit
eHealth Ernie Dal Grande, National eHealth
Program Manager, First Nations and Inuit Health
Branch, Health Canada
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eHealth Defined United Nations WHO
  • The use of information and communication
    technology in the health sector (digital data
    transmitted, stored and retrieved electronically
    for clinical, educational and administrative
    purposes, both at the local site and at a
    distance) (WHO HQ 2002 Mitchell 1999).

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Why eHealth?
  • Better health care and health for all by
    improving citizen access to health care any where
    they live, while providing good quality health
    information to help individuals make informed
    decisions
  • Improve the decision-making process by empowering
    health care professionals with the information
    required to plan and deliver health care service
  • Improve health system administration and
    management with quality information (planning,
    monitoring, allocation of funds, evaluation)

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Some of the Main eHealth Components
  • Health Information for the Public
  • Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical
    Record
  • Telehealth/Telemedicine/Telecare
  • Public Health Surveillance systems
  • Drug Information Support
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Laboratory Systems
  • Registries
  • Privacy Protection
  • Standards

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eHealth Summarized
  • Telecommunications (increasing demand for more
    bandwidth, start with what you can afford and
    increase over time as utilization goes up)
  • Point of Service Technologies (wide range of
    enabling tools, fully integrated to meet broad
    business needs)
  • Technology Support/Expertise ( health
    professionals are busy enough without having to
    worry about IT)
  • Health Service Delivery People ( need to see
    value to doing daily business electronically-must
    change mind set and business processes)
  • Health Organization Partnerships (partnerships
    help with integration and data sharing- eHealth
    is breaking down traditional jurisdictional
    boundaries)
  • Private Sector and NGO Involvement (this
    expertise is a vital part of transition and
    change management)
  • Business Process/Protocols (forcing the health
    sector to improve efficiency and update ICT and
    data management policy, regulations, laws)

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eHealth Lesson Learned
  • That e-Health deployment is a strategic business
    issue rather than a technology issue. Business
    needs and overall Health System costs drive
    e-Health deployment as the Enabler of Change
  • Be prepared to deal with Political,
    Technological, Financial, Organizational and
    Human Challenges
  • You must believe in the cause and stay with it.
    It will take time, effort and resources and it is
    a continuous learning process, with mistakes and
    corrections part of the journey
  • e-Health encompasses two distinct but
    interdependent components Information Management
    and Information Technology

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Contact
  • Ernie Dal Grande
  • National eHealth Program Manager
  • First Nations and Inuit Health Branch
  • Health Canada
  • Ottawa
  • ernie_dal_grande_at_hc-sc.gc.ca
  • 613-954-1736
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