A comprehensive provincial electronic health record (EHR) for Saskatchewan residents is complete.
Health providers with access to the EHR Viewer can now see their patients’ diagnostic imaging results, completing the core components of an EHR for Saskatchewan residents.
The EHR Viewer is a secure website developed for Saskatchewan health care providers to give access to patient information regardless of where an individual goes for care or where they live in the province.
“The EHR Viewer will allow seamless sharing of health information, something residents and providers told us we needed to better co-ordinate patients’ health care,” Health Minister Dustin Duncan said. “Patients benefit when their providers have timely access to information when making health care decisions.”
The EHR Viewer also includes access to:
• patient prescription and allergy information from community pharmacies;
• more than 90 per cent of laboratory results from health regions and the Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory;
• immunization histories;
• supports to help physicians better manage their patients with chronic disease, including diabetes and coronary artery disease;
• standardized operative reporting for breast cancer surgeries;
• hospital admission, discharge and transfer summaries, providing family physicians with valuable patient information; and
• discharge summaries from hospitals in the Saskatoon Health Region, allowing doctors to view the instructions their patients receive following release from hospital.
About 3,300 health care providers have access to the EHR Viewer, including physicians, pharmacists and nurse practitioners.
Patients who are concerned about access to their personal health information can request their information be masked and only be viewed with patient authorization.
