Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information

Name :

Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information

Address  :

70 O'Leary Avenue

Town  :

St Johns

State  :

Newfoundland

Country  :

CANADA

Post Code:

A1B 2C7

Phone  :

709 752 6000

Fax  :

709 752 6011

Web URL  :


Description

About the Centre
Since its inception in 1996 the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information the Centre has become the most comprehensive health information centre of its kind in Canada and is a model for other jurisdictions

The Centre was incorporated in 2007 under the Corporations Act with its own legislation and has since been a crown agency governed by a board of directors

Through support of the Provincial Government and Canada Health Infoway the Centre has been recognized for its contribution to the national agenda for development of the electronic health record EHR The Centre designed and implemented the first provincial client registry specifically for the electronic health record and the first provincial Picture Archiving and Communications System PACS that uses a central provincial archive for images and reports The Centre also makes significant contributions to the national agenda for standards development and dissemination applied health research and the evaluation of health information systems
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