Physician practices can choose multiple digital health services to help them care for their patients effectively and efficiently. They’ve seen the ads, they’ve talked to colleagues who already use them, but simply don’t know who to contact or what’s involved to get the process started. OntarioMD has a solution that respects clinicians’ valuable time. In one visit, OntarioMD can describe the benefits of each digital health service, get the onboarding process started and help get you trained on using each service. We call this approach the Digital Health Services Bundle. Much like bundling your cable, Internet and phone services, there’s a current bundle of digital health services available to clinicians that give you access to provincial digital health services that contain information about your patients. This streamlined approach is convenient for clinicians and saves time. Instead of multiple organizations knocking on your door, OntarioMD, because of our experience over the last decade in working with physician practices, is their chosen partner to roll out their digital health services across Ontario. OntarioMD is currently rolling out a bundle of services to clinicians on behalf of eHealth Ontario, Toronto Central LHN, the Northern and Eastern LHINs, University Health Network and the Ontario Telemedicine Network.
The current bundled services include:
In order to access provincial digital health services, clinicians require a ONE ID provided by eHealth Ontario. Think of it as your proof of identity, like a passport, to log into digital health services. With ONE ID, clinicians do not need to remember multiple user IDs and passwords. It provides one secure single sign-on to access multiple services like the ConnectingOntario ClinicalViewer.
ONE Mail, also from eHealth Ontario, is a secure e-mail service specifically created for health care organizations and professionals. You can send encrypted patient information to 390,000 users in Ontario across 800 organizations. Set-up is easy and there’s 24/7 dedicated support and no need for an on-site mail server.
The ConnectingOntario ClinicalViewer allows you to access and view a patient’s real-time information through secure, web-based portal. You can view your patients’ digital health records that include hospital visits, laboratory results, dispensed medicationss, diagnostic imaging reports and more.
eConsult, managed by the Ontario eConsult Program, is a tool that provides timely access to specialist advice and often eliminates the need to send patients for an in-person specialist visit. Through a private and secure web portal, you can send a specialist a clinical question about your patient and receive advice quickly and securely. This saves you and your patient time and provides quicker access to care and treatment for your patients.
To use any digital health services, you need privacy and security training to fulfill your legal obligations and protect your patient data from privacy breaches. OntarioMD has made it easy, and free, for you to get this kind of training. We offer the OntarioMD Privacy and Security Training Module at OntarioMD.ca. You can do the training whenever you have time, from wherever you can access the Internet. Family physicians also earn two Mainpro+ credits for their time. If you’d like some help to complete it, just ask our staff during the Digital Health Services Bundle visit and they can help you. Once you’ve completed the online training module, you can print a certificate of attestation to prove that you are familiar with the best practices to protect personal health information.
With so many digital health services now available to Ontario clinicians, you may be confused about what’s out there and how the services can help your practice. One email or phone call to OntarioMD will help you make sense of it all and connect you to the tools that are best for your patients and your practice.
Dr. Therese Hodgson, a family physician in the Ottawa area, has found the bundled approach to digital health services valuable and says of some of the services, “The ConnectingOntario Clinical Viewer provides me access to critical information for my patient in an easy and reliable way. This prevents delays in obtaining the information I need to best care for my patients. The OntarioMD Privacy and Security Training Module is a great resource and has helped me educate my staff in our duties as Health Information Custodians to protect personal health information”.
Get connected to digital health services efficiently, in one visit. Contact OntarioMD at support@ontariomd.com to talk to one of our staff in your area.