No. Alberta Netcare will continue to provide access to key patient health information. In fact, Alberta Netcare is being enhanced by additional provincially standardized information sourced from Connect Care, such as emergency department summaries and in-hospital consultations. Alberta Netcare is also being enhanced with new information from EMRs via CII/CPAR, such as community encounters via CEDs and community consultation reports. In addition, Alberta Health has undertaken the eHealth Ecosystem Modernization Initiative in which key eHealth assets and applications will be modernized to utilize consistent industry leading standards and best practices, beginning with Alberta Netcare. 

“Netcare will continue to be the first place health providers consult for patient information in Alberta. Connect Care is an important and expanding source of clinical information, but the majority of patient care happens in the community, and that is Netcare’s future.”

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AHS is using Connect Care both to improve the way AHS delivers healthcare and to stabilize the way that AHS uses and stores health care information.

CII/CPAR is a joint project between the Alberta Medical Association, Alberta Health and AHS and is the chosen vehicle to integrate community EMRs with two-way data flow to Alberta Netcare and other provincial eHealth systems.

Both projects work towards the same goal of promoting informational continuity across the province to provide better care for Albertans.

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Alberta Netcare, Connect Care and CII/CPAR are complimentary. Enhancements to these systems will enable broader opportunities for sharing information across the health system. Over time, the Alberta Netcare experience will be enhanced through better quality, consistency and breadth of AHS information from Connect Care and community information from CII/CPAR. Connect Care in turn will be flowing more AHS information to community EMRs and receiving more information on patients seen in the community through CII/CPAR in the future. CII/CPAR will also be used to link community provider EMRs, Connect Care and Alberta Netcare together to enable electronic referrals in Alberta.  The delivery of patient information to primary care providers would be subject to a confirmed relationship via CPAR.

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If you are providing health services where AHS holds the legal record of care, you will use Connect Care. If you are providing healthcare services using a community EMR and AHS does not hold the legal record of care, you will continue to use an EMR.

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Patient information will continue to reside in your community EMR, in Alberta Netcare, and in Connect Care, but there will be more common information available between them. Key information from across the health system will be available within Alberta Netcare, but greater detail on AHS encounters will be available via the Connect Care provider portal.  Alberta Health and AHS are working to enable authorized access to Connect Care provider portal via Alberta Netcare Portal over time.

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Results will be delivered in a very similar way as they are now. In fact, you may receive more information directly into your EMR via eDelivery than you did before, without the need to scan it or sort faxes.

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No. While work continues on Connect Care, Alberta Netcare, and CII/CPAR initiatives, the Alberta government continues to review the province’s health information systems to ensure they support coordinated high-quality care and avoid duplication.

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