Transcript Thehealthline.ca – helping you help others

Building a High Tech and High Touch
Community Information Resource
Partnership Opportunities through Online Mini-Sites
Agenda
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How we started
Deploying the provincial platform
Maintaining a provincial database
Adding value through partnership
Vision: Help people get
the information they
need to stay healthy
and get well when sick
Mission:
• Connect people with health and
social service information
• Build effective online care
communities through partnership
• Support a seamless continuum of
care
2001 - Local founding partnership
Integrated and expanded
Information London Database
Ongoing Local Partnership with City
of London and United Way
Aligned with South West LHIN
service boundaries
Resources created for both
consumers and health professionals
Extra features: health news, events,
careers, videos and other resources
Created a duplicate site in Champlain LHIN
for Champlain CCAC (CIC data partnership)
Starting 2012, thehealthline.ca,
OACCAC, CCACs, CIC partners deployed
provincial database and 14 websites
thehealthline.ca System
CCACs collect
data in
thehealthline.ca
Reciprocal Data Sharing
CICs collect Data
in CIOC and
export to
thehealthline.ca
thehealthline.ca Data Management
Platform
Service Profile Database
Data Inheritance
• Parent -> Child structure
• Allows for 6 levels of detail in record collection
• Data can be inherited from parent record which reduces duplication on child
records
Detailed Template Information
Data Import System (NSM)
 Data files exchanged between local data partners
 Three step process to update information on regional sites
Data Partnerships
Collect Information at Source
An Ontario Database
Dashboards
Sharing access to
provincial database
Health Care Options v3.0 Re-launch
Over 9,000 profiles translated to French and
shared with MOH
Project timeline began August 2013- April
2014
Leveraged existing local partnerships to
share data with the Ministry
Reaching specialized populations
Diabetes Resources
Ontario Library Association
Super Conference
‘ I am a Librarian at London Public Library and
have used your database over the years to
find health and community support
information. It is such a well-organized site
that it is my go-to resource to for patron
queries. I have begun posting health-related
library events there as well. And now that
your coverage is across Ontario I thought it is a
tool that more information services personnel
should know about.’
Cathy McLandress, Information Services
Librarian
London Public Library – Central Library
Thank you
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