Multi-Jurisdictional Envelope Initiatives

Western Canada Chronic Disease Management Infostructure

$8,000,000

The Western Health Information Collaborative (WHIC) is developing and implementing a chronic disease management infostructure solution across four western Canada provinces through the sharing of expertise, knowledge, and both capital and human resources.

Partners:

Governments of British Columbia, Alberta (lead), Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

Objectives:

• To reduce duplication in cost and effort;
• To develop portable and viable chronic disease management infostructure that can be leveraged for implementation across Canada; and
• To integrate current and emerging health care practices and services with key regional, provincial/territorial, and national primary health care and chronic disease management initiatives.

Activities:

• Create standards for chronic disease data including minimum data sets;
• Develop information interchange messages and related data definitions and capacity to share data in support of clinical decision-making for primary health care teams;
• Implement system solutions that integrate data with existing clinical decisions support tools and within existing care delivery models; and
• Develop process necessary to implement system and ensure ongoing use within primary health care teams.

Expected Results:

• A clinical information system in at least one implementation site per province that supports primary and longitudinal-based care;
• Data standards defined and implemented for the selected chronic conditions;
• Standards based messaging (HL7) implemented for exchange of data for selected chronic conditions;
• Interdisciplinary primary health care teams; and
• Care co-ordination and information integration.

Contact:

Michael Hurka Project Director
Chronic Disease Management Initiative
Western Health Information Collaborative
21st Floor, 10025 Jasper Avenue
Telus Plaza, North Tower
Edmonton, AB T5J 2N3
Tel: (780) 415-1412
Fax: (780) 427-2411
Email: michael.hurka@gov.ab.ca
www.whic.org/public/profiles/cdm.html