The eHealth program is a 10-year initiative aimed at bringing better, faster, safer health care to British Columbians across the province. It will introduce the provincial Electronic Health Record (EHR) which will provide each patient with a secure and private lifetime record of his/her key health history and care within the health system.
A patient’s provincial EHR will include shareable medical records, such as medication history, lab test results and diagnostic imaging reports. Physicians, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals will have access to portions of the provincial EHR when and where it is needed and authorized for patient care.
The eHealth program is being developed in three phases with the eDrug project one of a number of Phase 1 projects underway.
The eDrug Project will improve medication management and patient safety for British Columbians by upgrading and enhancing the existing PharmaNet system. This upgraded system comes with a new name – PharmaNet-eRx and is designed to support pharmacists to help enhance patient care and save time by adding three important new features – more comprehensive medication profiles, ePrescribing, and automated special authority processing. Although community pharmacists will be the first group to connect to PharmaNet-eRx there is much still to do and it will take some time to transition.
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