Authors:
Benjamin Eze
1
;
Craig Kuziemsky
2
;
Jamie Stevens
3
;
Paul Boissonneault
3
and
Liam Peyton
4
Affiliations:
1
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave, Ottawa, Canada, Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), 4200 Labelle St, Ottawa and Canada
;
2
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 55 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa and Canada
;
3
Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), 4200 Labelle St, Ottawa and Canada
;
4
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave, Ottawa and Canada
Keyword(s):
Healthcare Interoperability, Data Aggregation, Surveillance, Performance Management, Community Care, Cloud Computing, Regional Health Authority.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Databases and Datawarehousing
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
Abstract:
Achieving systematic performance management of care processes across a health region requires an architecture that balances interoperability and data standardization with data governance and privacy compliance. This paper presents a case study of a successful pilot of cloud-hosted performance management for community care by a Regional Health Authority mandated with coordinating home care amongst 54 Community Support Services agencies. Cloud-hosted data services enabled data integration to a common data model. Formal data sharing agreements and privacy definition documents controlled aggregation and data masking to protect privacy while enabling accurate and comprehensive performance management services for all agencies.