TELUS AND QUEENSWAY CARLETON HOSPITAL EXPAND PATIENT RECORD DISTRIBUTION

TELUS Health Solutions and Ottawa’s Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) have announced the expansion of the TELUS CareShare program that accelerates distribution of patient clinical documentation and Admitted Patient Notifications from emergency department visits to patients’ family doctors. More than 120 family doctors are receiving emergency treatment records within hours of a patient’s emergency department visit. The six-month pilot project went live in December 2011, and more than 1,350 documents have been delivered to date. An additional 700 physicians are expected to be added to the program over the next few months. 

CareShare Results Distribution accelerates the distribution of patient records to care providers and health organizations. Previously, these types of documents would have been delivered by mail or courier service. Physicians involved in the pilot with QCH have three notification and document delivery options: e-mail notification that a document is available for them; secure access Web portal where physicians and their staff can view available documents and retrieve documents to review, save locally for attachment to Electronic Medical Records (EMR), or print; and receiving documents by fax.