Digital health
strategic roadmap
This roadmap outlines the path to achieving the Vision, in three phases. Each phase both progresses our Vision and prepares us for the next phase.
Phase One
Key Foci
Automating as much as possible of the care continuum
- Acute; diagnostic; urgent, ambulatory; rehabilitation; mental health; complex continuing; long term; and primary care across the Provincial/Federal health jurisdictions. Connecting with the Provincial record and community pharmacies
Improving decision-supports for clinicians
- Alerts like drug-drug interactions, prompts like sepsis review, and more data availability, easily
Improving management with dashboards
- Patient flow, bed status, etc.
Beginning to rebalance digital equity and support wellness
- Patient/client portaland supporting efforts to bring digital equity
Supporting Foci
Laying the foundations for teaching, advanced analytics and research
- Digital health research –‘Evaluation of a crowd-sourced engagement approach’; ‘Evaluation of learning health system benefits from a shared
record’ - Big data availability and improved tools
Continuing to build system-wide privacy and security
- North Western Ontario Regional Cyber Security Operations Centre
Phase Two
Key Foci
Enabling data-driven system management and planning, risk stratification and population health management
- For example, using data that will now be available for analytics across planning, research, and treating communities of people
Applying advanced analytics tools
- For example. artificial intelligence, digital twins, predictive modelling, and more
Systemically enabling and conducting research through our data
- Research in and for the North West working with local research organizations
Consolidating or renewing ancillary and back-office
information systems
- A renewal of ancillary/ back office automation, for example, digital pathology and human resources
Supporting Foci
Adding more of the care continuum to the NWOHR
- In particular more long term and primary care and adding health centres, assisted living and community care
Incorporating the NWOHR into the teaching curriculum
Adding newer digital capabilities, e.g., internet of things, new data streams and self-management
Continuing to advance digital equity, privacy and security
Phase Three
Key Foci
What new innovation is there?
How can we further take advantage of technology and data?
How do we advance digital health innovation in the North West?
Supporting Foci
Adding more of the care continuum to the NWOHR
Continuing to advance analytics, research, digital equity, privacy and security
Schedule
The stages in this diagram follow the collective journey to go-live
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