TransForm Shared Service Organization helps boost patient care with data sharing
The nonprofit IT manager shares data more easily and securely via Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange, powered by Oracle Health.
Canada | Healthcare Providers
“Our nurses are finding what normally would take 30-plus minutes to do a medication reconciliation is now taking two minutes’ worth of time, so that’s 28 more minutes going back to working with that patient, getting them settled, getting them comfortable in a very unsettling time.”
Video: Ontario eHub: Enhancing Patient Care through Seamless Health Data Transfers (2:43)
TransForm Shared Service Organization, a nonprofit managing IT for five hospitals in Ontario, Canada, faced the pressing challenge of lost or incomplete data during patient transfers, which can affect safety and continuity of care. Partnering with Oracle Health, the organization created Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange to connect to and integrate with other vendors’ medical technology. Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange is an initiative helping improve healthcare across Ontario by enabling real-time data exchanges between long-term care and acute-care facilities—crucial for patients who may arrive at emergency rooms unaccompanied and unable to share their medical histories. This lets clinicians access patient data directly within their workflows for immediate use, rather than relying on manual entry from separate repositories. As a result, medication reconciliation in supported emergency departments takes significantly less time, allowing nurses to devote much more attention to patient care—that helps improve both patient experience and staff efficiency.