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ConnectingGTA: changing how you access
patienTtEAiMnENfGoAGrEmMENaT tion

Dr. Peter Rossos understands the organizations to receive care. Unfortunately, essential
information does not always travel with them or is not
frIuTstTrRatAioNnsSoFfObeRinMgAbTotIhOaNpatient readily available at the point of care.
When information is available, it may be fragmented,
and a clinician. dispersed in paper or across multiple electronic
“I’ve spent days as a patient waiting systems. Each electronic system may require a
to hear from my own physician and, as a clinician, separate username and password to access.
But ConnectingGTA, which launched in August 2015,
dpuevtteilnogptaogtreetahtemr epRniEetcSpelEmaAneaRfolCrinHmfoyArmpNaatDtiieonInNtsb,N”esfOoayrVesADITcra.IOn N addresses these challenges. Led by University Health
Network and funded by eHealth Ontario and Canada
Rossos, UHN’s Chief Medical Information Officer and Health Infoway, ConnectingGTA provides seamless
a Gastroenterologist at Toronto General Hospital. and secure access to acute and community care data.
“Clinician time should be spent providing care to This will improve the timeliness of care decisions,
reduce duplicate tests and procedures to better
patients, not playMinIgCdHeEteNctEivRe.”INTEGRATION support care transition points.

These frustrations are commonplace across all care Link to full story: click here.
settings.
Patients in central Ontario visit multiple healthcare

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