Connect Care Wave 2 launches Oct. 24

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we do our work at AHS, but it has not stopped our work — especially major projects, such as Connect Care.

Connect Care provides healthcare teams with a more complete picture of a patient’s health history, access to consistent information on best practices, resources at their fingertips and will be able to communicate with patients and each other more easily.

And thanks to the hard work of countless people, the first wave of Connect Care successfully launched at the University of Alberta campus and other sites in the Edmonton Zone on Nov. 3, 2019.

And with Wave 1 in place, Connect Care has been an important tool in our COVID-19 response. Its flexibility allowed us to adapt it to support the pandemic in a variety of ways, such as expanding virtual support for patients.

Our next wave is now set for Oct. 24, and will include suburban Edmonton sites, as well as the connected lab and diagnostic imaging locations.

With me today to talk more about Connect Care are:

• Heather Durstling, Executive Director, Suburban Hospitals Edmonton Zone
• Judith Hockney, Senior Operating Officer, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Lois Hole Hospital for Women and Sturgeon Community Hospitals
• Barb Kathol, Senior Program Officer, Connect Care
• Dr. Stuart Rosser, Interim Chief Medical Information Officer

Heather, Judith, Barb and Stuart talk about what we learned during Wave 1, what we have adapted for Wave 2, and what Connect Care successes we’ve seen so far.