A palpable buzz surrounds Traverse Exchange Canada’s potential. We're thrilled to share a summary of the features that are currently live and provide a glimpse of exciting developments on the horizon.
Current participation and connections
- 10 MEDITECH Instances are live, representing 21 sites.
- Connecting the ONE HITs organization will add 23 facilities in North East Ontario, connecting all Ontario Expanse sites.
- Active data exchange is occurring with 319 Long Term Care Point Click Care sites.
- Data exchange with Oracle's eHUB represents 60 Oracle/Cerner Ontario instances.
Active onboarding of Epic organizations
- Mackenzie Health is anticipated to go live in April/May 2025.
- The Ottawa Hospital and its Atlas Alliance of 9 Epic hospitals are underway.
- Sick Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is anticipated to be live by June 2025.
Connections to Ontario Health managed assets
- The Provincial Client Registry (PCR) is LIVE.
- The Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) data feeds under the Comprehensive Medication Record for Ontarians (CMRO) are in pilot phase.
- The Ontario Lab Information System (OLIS) for retrieving Lab data into the Expanse Chart is in pilot phase.
Upcoming Ontario Health-driven projects
- Ontario Health has mandated that Acute and Community Care Clinical Data Repository Connection (acCDRv2.6.1) specifications be met. This includes sending ADTs, IDM reports, LAB/MIS specimens, and scanned images to the acCDR.
- The Provincial Care Coordination Gateway (PCCG) will allow electronic referrals to flow into the Expanse Community Wide Scheduling desktop for appointment booking.
- The Provincial Health Services Directory (PHSD) will automate updates from the Provincial asset into the Expanse person/provider dictionary
- The Surgical Efficiency Targets Program (SETP) Modernization Initiative will transition the current manual submission of operating room utilization and efficiency data to the Surgical Efficiency Target Program (SETP) database into an automated reporting process.
Anticipated Patient Summary presentation
The Patient Summary presentation with Traverse Exchange Canada will de-duplicate and normalize data, reducing the cognitive demand of processing inbound shared data. Expanse users eagerly await the planned summer 2025 delivery of the new FHIR-based Patient Summary data presentation, which will further leverage the Traverse Exchange Canada network.
We're committed to keeping you informed as the Traverse Exchange Canada network continues to evolve. Stay tuned for further updates and announcements!