About eHealth Ontario

eHealth Ontario is playing the lead role in harnessing information technology and innovation to improve patient care, safety and access in support of the government’s health strategy.

We are providing a single, harmonized, coherent province-wide eHealth Strategy and aligning it through a single point of accountability. Our work will enable and fulfill the government’s strategic health care priorities.

 

The vision, mission and mandate of eHealth Ontario

The vision of eHealth Ontario is:
Achieving excellence in health care by harnessing the power of information.

 

The mission of eHealth Ontario is to:
Deliver a comprehensive, patient-focused, secure and private electronic system that will improve the way patients receive care.

 

The mandate of eHealth Ontario is to:
Play leading role in harnessing IT and innovation to improve patient care, safety and access in support of the government’s health strategy.

• Provide a single, harmonized and coherent eHealth Strategy for Ontario that supports the government’s health agenda.
• Align all publicly-funded eHealth initiatives through a single point of accountability.
• Encompass all provincially funded health care system information initiatives that support clinicians and patient care delivery, and are actually or potentially province-wide in scope.