ANNUAL BUSINESS REPORT 2017-2018

Through collaboration with the health system, the Centre supports improvements in the collection of data and use of information for individual and population levels of care, administration and planning, and conducts analytic and evaluation projects, and maintains key health databases. [...] Highlights of the new Act included expanding the mandate of the Centre to reflect its designation as lead of the Provincial eHealth Model; requiring an employee of the Office of the Chief Information Officer to be a director on the board of the Centre; allowing the Minister to provide directions to the Centre; and modifying the financial responsibilities and obligations of the Centre. [...] The partners the Centre worked with during 2017/2018 include: Annual Business Report 2017/2018 8 Department of Health and Community Services During 2017/18, the Centre and HCS worked together to advance the implementation and adoption of both the provincial EHR, HEALTHe NL, and the provincial EMR, eDOCSNL, in physician office settings and in support of primary care teams within the RHAs and fee-fo. [...] In 2017/2018, the Centre provided analytic and evaluation support to the RHAs including the development of information used in the planning and monitoring of primary health care renewal initiatives on the Bonavista and Burin Peninsulas. [...] As part of this work, the Centre is supporting the implementation of the provincial EMR program at the Bonavista and Burin primary health care sites, and is involved in planning for future implementation of eDOCSNL in primary health care clinics in the Western and Central regions.