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" RECOGNIZING EARLY ON THAT
WE COULD ACTIVATE SOLUTIONS
ALONGSIDE TECHNOLOGY
INVESTMENTS THAT HAVE ALREADY
BEEN MADE HAS ENABLED US
TO CONNECT HEALTHCARE
PROFESSIONALS WITH THE ACCESS
TO INFORMATION THEY'VE WANTED
TO SEE ALL THESE " -Steve Todd
ClinicalConnect has been widely
adopted by Southwestern Ontario
hospitals, allowing physicians to
easily access patient information.
But without digital transformation in
other areas - for instance, converting decades of patient documents to
digital - hospitals aren't able to reap
the full beneﬁts of the streamlined
system.
Last year, while facing an influx
of obstacles emerging from the pandemic, Woodstock Hospital became
the very ﬁrst hospital to complete the
PI Healthcare integration.
" We're grateful that our partnership with Woodstock Hospital over
the years has allowed us to create a
relationship with ClinicalConnect
organically and address the speciﬁc
needs of hospitals to alleviate strain
on their resources - especially given
the current state of overwhelm on the

sector as a whole, " says Steve Todd,
director, business development at
Polar Imaging.
Now, the Polar Imaging team
is focused on implementing PI
Healthcare integration at two other
hospitals in the region. Utilizing a
two-phased approach, the team ﬁrst
captures backlogs of information, and
then connects all the digitized data
into the ClinicalConnect integration.
" Recognizing early on that we could
activate solutions alongside technology investments that have already
been made has enabled us to connect
healthcare professionals with the
access to information they've wanted
to see all these years and opens
up opportunities to replicate this
approach for other hospitals in the
region, " adds Todd.
While there is an obvious and direct
beneﬁt for healthcare practitioners to
have convenient and timely access to
patient health records and not having
to allocate valuable resources to manual processes, better accessibility to
data on the patient side is also on the
horizon. Committed to expanding the
functionality of their PI Healthcare
solution, Polar Imaging sees an opportunity to connect patient information
with MyChart via ClinicalConnect,
allowing patients to securely access
their own electronic health records
from participating sites in Ontario.

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