Current state of what data is available on patient portals across Canada ( lemmy.ca )

LordPassionFruit , 10 months ago

Saw PEI and wasn’t at all surprised. Give us another decade and we’ll see you in 2020

UnhappyCamper , 10 months ago

Where’s Manitoba?

otter OP , 10 months ago

I’d imagine there wasn’t a suitable patient portal for it to be included in the comparison. Here’s what I had from the report:

Key Messages • Patient portals allow users to access, manage, and share their health information online

• Patient portals are available in 6 provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec
• Patient portals in Canada are implemented at the provincial, regional, or clinic level of the health care system, and vary in the health data and features that are shared with users
• Medical imaging reports are shared on portals in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. In Saskatchewan and Alberta, reports are available immediately, whereas Quebec has a 30-day embargo period. Ontario has an intention to enable patient portals to share medical images from provincial diagnostic imaging repositories in the future
• A tailored approach may be considered when timing the release of medical imaging results due to concerns related to patient anxiety, especially for individuals waiting for diagnostic results of potentially life-threatening or serious conditions
• Radiologists can use lay language in their reports and provide users with reliable sources of information to increase understanding of complex results. They may develop or take advantage of existing patient-friendly templates for sharing results on port

UnhappyCamper , 10 months ago

Interesting, thanks for the reply. I know we have a kind of online diagnostics sharing tool for practicioners to use, I guess it just doesn’t compare.

otter OP , 10 months ago

Yea that might be it. More interoperability would be nice, just takes a while for us to get there :)

k_rol , 10 months ago

It’s nice to see at least Alberta got that figured out. I hope they did some presentation to the other provinces on how they achieved this and what they learned. We could all benefit from that.