eHealth
What is eHealth?
The Toronto Central LHIN is a strong proponent of eHealth’s potential to improve health services. In addition to collaboration among the LHINs covering the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the Toronto Central and Central LHINs have developed a joint eHealth strategy to support eHealth initiatives in their local areas. The partnership was generated in acknowledgement of common priorities and objectives, as well as the strong referral relationships between the two LHINs.
The LHINs encourage health service providers to become familiar with the Joint eHealth Strategy when contemplating local eHealth initiatives.
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Resource Matching and Referral
The Toronto Central LHIN Resource Matching and Referral (RM&R) Program represents the next generation of the health care referral process. Efficient and timely referrals between organizations are essential to ensuring patients/clients flow through the health care system and access the most appropriate level and location of care.
Resource Matching and Referral (RM&R) is an electronic information and referral system that matches patient/clients to the earliest available services that best meets their individual needs. RM&R improves the patient/client experience and is designed to ensure all individuals have equitable access to safe and high quality services.
RM&R is a powerful tool to reduce Alternate Level of Care (ALC) days and contribute to lower ER wait times. RM&R identifies people who are waiting too long or unnecessarily in a hospital bed and helps them to transition to another care setting to continue their care.
RM&R has become one of Ontario’s fastest moving and most coordinated eHealth implementations. It involves integration by all hospitals, the CCAC, all long-term care homes and, starting this year, mental health and addictions and community support services.