Group Health Centre Ambulatory – EMR/HIS Connect Benefits Evaluation Final Report

The Group Health Centre (GHC) is multi-specialty, multi-disciplinary ambulatory care facility with diagnostic services located in northern Ontario.  GHC’s implementation of a new EMR solution sought to enable increased clinical efficiency and productivity and improve quality of patient care. This evaluation report found a trending decrease in transcription costs, improved connectivity with community and provincial stakeholders and set the foundation for the introduction of GHC’s patient portal, myCARE.