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The HITS eHealth Office at Hamilton Health Sciences is pleased to advise that Chemistry and Hematology lab data, reported from Norfolk General Hospital, is now also being sent to the Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS), via ClinicalConnect. These report types are in addition to Blood Bank and Pathology that began sending in April 2024 as previously communicated. Thank you to the team at Norfolk General Hospital for their work and collaboration on this project! 

The HITS eHealth Office at Hamilton Health Sciences is pleased to advise that Blood Bank and Pathology results, reported from Norfolk General Hospital, are now being sent to the Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS), via ClinicalConnect. 

Genetics, Malignant Hematology-Flow and Bone Marrow Reports from the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program (HRLMP), generated from June 4, 2022 onwards, are now available to all authorized ClinicalConnect users in PDF format in the Pathology & Genetics Module. In ClinicalConnect, the "Source" of all Genetics reports is "HHSC". For additional info, visit https://info.clinicalconnect.ca/CC/healthcare/resource-centre-summary-of-hhs-data-display-changes 

We are pleased to advise that scanned and archived health records from St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital and Listowel Wingham Hospital Alliance are now viewable in ClinicalConnect's Health Records module by authorized users. Click here to learn more.

Pathology Reports from the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program (HRLMP) are now available to all authorized ClinicalConnect users in PDF format in the Pathology & Genetics Module. In ClinicalConnect, the "Source" of all HRLMP Pathology Reports is "HHSC". For additional info, visit https://info.clinicalconnect.ca/CC/healthcare/resource-centre-summary-of-hhs-data-display-changes 

Oncology data from visits to Niagara Health's Walker Family Cancer Centre (WFCC), including historical data, is now viewable in ClinicalConnect's Transcriptions Module (where the "Source" is WFCC, and the "Facility" is St. Catharines Site). For additional info, visit https://info.clinicalconnect.ca/CC/healthcare/resource-centre-advanced-search#Source

We are pleased to announce that select types of cardiology data from Joseph Brant Hospital can now be viewed by authorized users in ClinicalConnect's Cardiology Module. Click here to learn more. 

Click here to read about Hamilton Health Sciences' data display changes following its implementation of Epic, that relate to your use of ClinicalConnect. 

Paediatric Covid-19 vaccination information is now viewable in ClinicalConnect's Pharmacy Module. Click here to read more.

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We are pleased to announce select types of cardiology-related data can now be viewed in ClinicalConnect's Cardiology Module. Click here to learn more. 

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Authorized ClinicalConnect users can now subscribe to be notified by email when new results are available for their patients in ClinicalConnect. Click here to learn more. 

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We are pleased to announce that the next release of ClinicalConnect, known as version 5.2, is now live! Click here to read more about the new features and functionality. 

Effective May 22, 2021, ClinicalConnect users at Participant Organizations that are authorized to view data from the Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) will be able to view their patients' COVID-19 vaccination information. Click here to read more. 

Click here to view the April eUpdate.

We are pleased to announce that data from all four hospitals using ESC Region's new Hospital Information System can be viewed in ClinicalConnect. Click here to read more. 

On behalf of Ontario Health, please be advised that the Primary Care Data Sharing Proof of Concept (POC) Project ended on March 31, 2021. Please click here to read the full announcement. 

Additional HNHB LHIN hospitals' Radiology and Transcription reports now being contributed to provincial Acute & Community Clinical Data Repository. Click here to read more. 

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Click here to read a summary of the types of services provided by the ClinicalConnect Program Office, plus helpful resources and contact information for Participants!

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We are pleased to announce that Transcription reports from Joseph Brant Hospital are now being sent to the provincial Acute & Community Clinical Data Repository via ClinicalConnect. Click here to read more. 

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We are pleased to announce the successful integration between ClinicalConnect and the new Hospital Information System (HIS) being used in the Erie St. Clair (ESC) Region. Click here to read more. 

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The HITS eHealth Office at Hamilton Health Sciences is pleased to advise that COVID-19 test results, reported from Joseph Brant Hospital, are now being sent into the Ontario Laboratories Information system (OLIS), via ClinicalConnect, the clinical viewer for south west Ontario. In light of the current pandemic, this work represents an important milestone to help ensure these results are available to patients’ authorized healthcare providers. Read more by Clicking Here

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We are pleased to announce that ClinicalConnect users at authorized organizations now have access to an increased number of patients' records from across Ontario as a result of ClinicalConnect's integration with Ontario Health Digital Services' Provincial Client Registry (PCR). Click here to read more. 

We are pleased to announce that effective April 15, 2020, scanned and archived data from Woodstock General Hospital is now viewable within ClinicalConnect’s Health Records module. Click here to read more. 

Click here to view the March eUpdate.

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) lab test results can be viewed by authorized healthcare providers in the Microbiology Module of ClinicalConnect, clinical viewer for south west Ontario. Click here to read the full notice.

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Please click here to view the accomplishments for ClinicalConnect in 2019.

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The HITS eHealth Office at Hamilton Health Sciences is pleased to advise that various tests, reported from Niagara Health, are now being sent into the Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS), via ClinicalConnect, the regional clinical viewer for south west Ontario. This work represents an important milestone as part of the provincial initiative to build an electronic health record for all Ontarians. Click here to read full details.

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We are pleased to announce the successful integration of ClinicalConnect with Grand River Hospital's new Cerner hospital information system, plus additional cardiology-related data has added to the portal's Cardiology Module. Click here to read full details. 

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Click here to read about the new version of ClinicalConnect and its enhancements and bug fixes.

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To read an overview of ClinicalConnect's next product release, referred to as Version 5.0.4, please click here.  Or you can watch videos that highlight what's coming for ClinicalConnect on desktop and mobile devices!

 

 

 

 

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We are pleased to share an update about the new Cardiology module in ClinicalConnect. Click here for additional details. 

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Please click here to view the accomplishments for ClinicalConnect in 2018.

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It’s been just over a year since ClinicalConnect underwent a major upgrade. The HITS eHealth Office at Hamilton Health Sciences, responsible for operating ClinicalConnect, wanted to highlight all that’s been done to respond to feedback and continuously improve the system’s performance for end users.

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We are pleased to share information about new features related to how data from the Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) displays in ClinicalConnect. Click here for additional detail. 
 

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The HITS eHealth Office is pleased to announce that Home & Community Care (HCC) data from Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) located outside south west Ontario is now available in ClinicalConnect. The additional data, available in the ClinicalConnect’s Home & Community Care Module, includes:

• Coordinated Care Plans
• Equipment & Supplies
• Notes
• Referrals
• Risks
• Safety Issues
• Services

Click here to read the complete announcement.

Click here to view the June eUpdate.

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Following the initial integration of ClinicalConnect with eHealth Ontario’s Primary Care Clinical Data Repository (pcCDR) on December 2, 2017, we are pleased to announce that in addition to the sub-set of data already contributed by McMaster Family Health Team (FHT), a sub-set of data from three additional FHTs is now also available to authorized users of the Primary Care module in ClinicalConnect.

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Click here to view the April eUpdate.

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In an effort to keep the ClinicalConnect community aware of work to improve your user experience, part of that work has revealed that Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, MacOS Safari or Mozilla Firefox will all yield better performance (i.e. speed) over any version of Internet Explorer (IE), and Google Chrome is currently recognized to yield the best performance.

The reason for this is that the Javascript Engine used by Chrome is 40% faster than the one used by IE, even at its most recent version 11. With respect to ClinicalConnect's performance when using Google Chrome, it's been proven that speed increases by between 30% and 70%.

The overall browser performance improves with every new version of Chrome (or alternate browser as listed above), while Microsoft is no longer further developing its IE11 and its performance is frozen at 2013 levels. Microsoft IE has been superseded by Edge.

We do recognize that certain healthcare organizations may be restricted to the use of IE. Work is ongoing to identify ways to improve the performance for users who are limited to using IE to access ClinicalConnect.

Click here to view the January eUpdate.

Please be advised it’s just been announced that Aptean Corp. has acquired the ‘Connect’ division of Influence Health. Influence Health is the vendor of Connect, the platform on which ClinicalConnect™, the regional clinical viewer for south west Ontario, is built. Click here to read the complete announcement.

We are pleased to announce the successful integration of ClinicalConnect with St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton's new hospital information system, Epic, as well as eHealth Ontario's Primary Care Clinical Data Repository. Click here to read complete announcement.

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Click here to read about the new version of ClinicalConnect and its enhanced features and functionality.

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Click here to read more about the "Under Authority Of" (UAO) selector for users authorized by multiple organizations to access ClinicalConnect.

Mark Farrow, VP of HITS & CIO, Hamilton Health Sciences, recently was interviewed by healthsystemCIO.com and spoke about leveraging data to improve population health and how ClinicalConnect makes a difference in Southwestern Ontario. Click here to read the article.

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Click here to read about updates pertaining to HOBIC data as well as a Days Back filter update applied in ClinicalConnect, effective February 25, 2016.

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Click here to read ClinicalConnect Portal: Improving Patient Care & Efficiency, published in Volume 15, Issue 4, 2015 in Health Management: The Journal.

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Read Integrated Electronic Records Connect Healthcare Providers, The Windsor Star, August 5, 2015.

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Data from all 67 acute care hospital sites in South West Ontario is now accessible in the cSWO Regional Clinical Viewer, ClinicalConnect, following the successful integration of the remaining six hospital sites in the Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network. Click here to read more.

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We are pleased to announce that Phase 2 of the integration of diagnostic images from the Southwestern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network (SWODIN) with ClinicalConnect is complete. Diagnostic images from the following hospitals are now available in ClinicalConnect:

• Cambridge Memorial Hospital
• St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
• Wellington Health Information Network (WHIN), which includes Groves Memorial Community Hospital, Louise Marshall Hospital, Palmerston and District Hospital & Guelph General Hospital

The addition of diagnostic images from these hospitals complements those already available in ClinicalConnect for Hamilton Health Sciences, Norfolk General Hospital and St. Mary’s General Hospital. Click here to read the full release.

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click here to read more about the changes to CCAC client health information available in ClinicalConnect.

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We welcome everyone to join our new online forum to get helpful information about ClinicalConnect. Click here to see a short tutorial on how to use the forum. To visit the forum: Click Here  

We are pleased to announce Phase 1 of the integration of diagnostic images from the Southwestern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Network (SWODIN) with ClinicalConnect is complete. The first site to go live is Norfolk General Hospital; images from more hospitals will follow in the next phases of this integration. The addition of these images will complement the diagnostic imaging reports that are already available in ClinicalConnect. Read more...

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We are pleased to announce that lab requests and results from eHealth Ontario’s Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS) have successfully been integrated into ClinicalConnect, a secure web-based clinical viewer. Click here to read more.

We are pleased to announce that hospital data from Bluewater Health has now been integrated into the ClinicalConnect portal. This marks the first completed integration in Erie St. Clair (ESC) Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) as part of the connecting South West Ontario (cSWO) Program. Click here to read more.

We are pleased to announce significant updates to ClinicalConnect, a secure web portal that provides authorized physicians and clinicians with a single point of access to an expanding data set for patients in south west Ontario. 
Effective April 10, 2014, the following data and functionality is now available:

1. An expanded Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) data set, as well as new data from the Erie St. Clair (ESC) and South West (SW) CCACs
2. Patient Header flag identifying Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) Health Links patients
3. Self-Service Password Management for users at Partner and Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC) sites to change/unlock/reset passwords

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We are pleased to announce that hospital data from Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance (HPHA) and Alexandra Marine and General Hospital (AMGH) has now been integrated into the ClinicalConnect portal. This marks the first completed integration outside of the Waterloo Wellington (WW) and Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) LHINs, and is the first of many patient data integrations from across this region as part of the connecting South West Ontario (cSWO) Program. ClinicalConnect is the regional clinical viewer for the cSWO Program, funded by eHealth Ontario. Hamilton Health Sciences is the regional service delivery partner deploying ClinicalConnect across the four South West LHINs. The cSWO Program is foundational to eHealth Ontario’s commitment to integrate electronic health information for all Ontarians. Read More by Clicking Here

C-HOBIC Transition Synoptic Report is now available in the ClinicalConnect Transcription module. The report illustrates clinical outcome data on adult patients who experience an acute care hospital stay. By comparing the patient’s status between admission and discharge health care providers (HCPs) can plan the appropriate care and resources to manage ongoing care to optimize patient health. Access to this information supports the coordination and effectiveness of care between HCPs and health service provider organizations as the patient transition from one organization or level of care to another. This coordinated approach facilitates excellent care for all but is especially important in chronic care management for those high needs patients identified in the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) Health Links initiatives. Read More by Clicking Here

The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) LHIN eHealth Office is pleased to announce a new process for access to ClinicalConnect for those physicians without hospital credentials in the 28 hospitals in the HNHB and Waterloo Wellington (WW) LHINs. As of October 2013, physicians currently not credentialed at one of the 28 hospitals in HNHB and WW LHINs will have an alternative process by which they can obtain access to ClinicalConnect. This will involve a new streamlined process granting access to ClinicalConnect and will involve limited privileges granted by Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS). Physicians granted limited privileges under this new process will abide by the Rules and Regulations and By-laws of HHS. Read More by Clicking Here