What eCHN Provides
The electronic Child Health Network (eCHN) is a secure electronic health record that allows authorized health care providers, such as your family physician or your paediatrician to access the latest medical data about your child instantly from many different sources.
Protecting
Your Privacy
eCHN is committed to protecting the privacy of patients’ personal health information and operates with the highest level of security safeguards in place. eCHN data are encrypted and travel through a secure private network. Only authorized health care professionals involved in a specific child’s “circle of care” can gain access to the patient’s chart and a rigorous audit system keeps track of who signs in and why.
Data posted on eCHN are not available to any government or private organization and are not used for research purposes.
If you have any questions about the security of your child’s health records, please contact eCHN’s Privacy Officer at 416-813-8420 or privacy@echn.ca.
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Why We Need eCHN
Your child may be required to move around to a variety of health care providers in different facilities and locations. Each visit can produce new medical information which forms an essential piece of the entire health picture for the patient. It is important that the medical professionals caring for your child be able to access his/her medical history and recent updates as quickly and easily as possible. Accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date patient information is vital to medical decision-making.
eCHN enables a vital transfer of patient health information among health care providers that is rapid and seamless. By meeting this important requirement of our health care system, eCHN is working to improve the health of every child in the province.
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Participation in eCHN
eCHN shares health information with medical professionals within the “circle of care” for your child in accordance with Ontario's Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004. Consent is managed by the individual member facilities who may request that parents or guardians sign a consent document.
If you wish, you may revoke consent for the release of your child's personal health information to eCHN from any member facility you visit. You may also revoke consent for access to your child's existing information on eCHN for any member facility you visit.
Who Belongs/Has
Access to eCHN
eCHN has grown to encompass more than 100 hospital sites around the province, including major paediatric centres like Toronto’s The Hospital for Sick Children, London Health Sciences Centre and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa. In addition, member sites include Community Care Access Centres, Children’s Treatment Centres, independent medical clinics, and the offices of individual paediatricians and family physicians.
Only authorized health care professionals involved in the "circle of care" for a specific patient are allowed to access his/her electronic health record on eCHN.
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Information Available on eCHN
eCHN collects the data resulting from your child’s encounters with the health care system and consolidates them in the form of a single medical chart. It supplies such key areas of information as: admission, discharge and transfer data; lab reports; clinic notes; consultant’s letters and surgical notes; X-ray images and reports. eCHN contains the records of more than 1,800,000 Ontario children, aged 0 to 19.
