The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is collaborating with provinces, territories, and organizations to develop standardized electronic patient-record summaries, aiming to address data gaps in healthcare, particularly in emergency services.
The institute that compiles Canada ’s health care indicators is part of a countrywide effort to standardize patients’ records in electronic format, which it says will address current data gaps in critical areas such as hospital emergency services .
Data collected in The Globe and Mail’s report highlighted how emergency services still have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. The PS-CA patient summary guidelines are part of bilateral deals that Ottawa has been signing with individual provinces since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $46.2-billion in new health care spending last year. In return for the federal money, provinces commit to tracking their performance via benchmarks being developed by CIHI.
He could not provide a precise deadline for when the patient summaries would be in place across the country, but said it would be “a multiyear journey.” Moreover, even though hospitals are computerized now, their systems are not necessarily in line with other jurisdictions or with CIHI. “We have a highly digitized health care system but not standardized in terms of what’s captured, how it’s captured and how it’s summarized.”
At the start of this year, only one in 10 Ontario hospitals met the provincial target waiting time for patients with serious conditions, compared with 25 per cent before the pandemic. At the Montreal General Hospital, emergency patients spent, on average, a whole day on stretchers, 10 more hours than in 2020. At the Saskatoon City Hospital, people who needed to be admitted from the emergency room to an in-patient bed typically had to wait more than two days last winter.
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