Lanier has been in Canada for the last 4 decades. We are committed to the delivery of timely patient care, and to this end we have positioned ourselves with several business partners to provide the latest technology which enables us to allow Healthcare groups to capture and store Patient Health Records. We feel our Enterprise Dictation/Transcription solutions put us in the most favourable position in the market for the delivery and privacy of the Patient Health Record.
Lanier solutions address each Health Authorities requirements of a centralized solution incorporating the sustainability and the interoperability necessary in today’s healthcare environment.
We currently have installations in each of the 14 LHINS and we look forward to working with each individual LHIN to support their initiatives.
For additional information, please contact us at info@lhcc.ca or please call at:
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Ontario Local Health Integration Networks
Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) are not-for-profit organizations designed to plan, integrate and fund local health services within specific geographic areas. There are 14 LHINs across the province. They were created as recognition that a community’s health needs and priorities are best understood by people familiar with the needs of that community and the people who live there, not from offices hundreds of miles away. LHINs are an important part of the evolution of health care in Ontario from a collection of services that are often un-coordinated to a true health care system.
Why were they created?
LHINs were created to fix the piecemeal way Ontario’s health care system was organized. The goal is to create local links between health care services and health care providers, to make it easier for patients and their loved ones to find their way through a very complex health system as they move from one health service provider to another. LHINs are changing the way our health care system is managed.
What will LHINs do?
LHINs will manage health services that are delivered in hospitals, long-term care homes, community health centres, community support services, community care access centres and community mental health and addictions agencies. LHINs are based on a principle that community-based care is best planned, coordinated and funded in an integrated manner within the local community because local people are best able to determine their health service needs and priorities. LHINs will determine the health service priorities required in their local community and will work with local health providers and community members to develop an integrated health service plan for their local area. They will eventually be responsible for funding and ensuring accountability of local health service providers. While LHINs will not directly provide services, the government is giving them the mandate for planning, integrating and funding health care services. LHINs will oversee nearly two thirds of the health care budget in Ontario – nearly $21 billion. They have been specifically mandated to engage people and providers in their communities about their needs and priorities. As LHIN roles evolve over the next few years, the immediate benefits will be unprecedented opportunities for community input into health care planning. In the years to come, we expect to see better access to patient care.
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Benefits of LHINs
Health care choices by the community, for the community Under LHINs, people closer to what is really going on will identify community health care priorities at the local level. We’re all in this together The health care system belongs to the people of Ontario; they’re the ones who depend on it and who pay for it. LHINs will, for the first time, involve Ontarians in the health care conversation, giving them a chance to participate in decisions about the health care system in their communities. Transparency, accountability and responsibility LHINs will ensure that health care dollars are spent in the most efficient and effective way possible, yielding the best results possible. Accountability agreements between health care providers and LHINs, and between LHINs and government, will ensure the responsible use of precious health care resources, and the sustainability of the health care system for generations to come. A system with patients at the centre The health care system has not always been an easy one to figure out. LHINs will change that, breaking down the barriers that patients face and ensuring that decisions are made in the interests of patient care.
Quebec Local Service Networks
The implementation of ninety-five (95) local services networks will lead all stakeholders within a given territory to become responsible for the accessibility and continuity of services offered to their population. This new approach will benefit everyone, in particular the most vulnerable members of the population such as those suffering from mental health problems or chronic illnesses, those nearing the end of life, frail seniors and troubled youth.
For Minister Couillard, « the advantage for the public is in knowing that there is an organization in their community that is responsible for offering them the best services, so they no longer have to navigate their way on their own around the maze that our system all too often becomes. »
Health and social services centres
New institutions known as health and social services centres are found at the heart of each local services network. The health and social services centres were created by merging local community health centres (CLSCs), residential and long-term care centres (CHSLDs) and general and specialized hospital centres (CHSGSs). This new type of institution results from the adoption of the Act respecting local health and social services network development agencies (Bill 25) in December 2004.
The creation of health and social services centres at the heart of the local services networks means that a hierarchy of services must be established to guarantee better complementarity and make it easier for people to move through the primary (general medical and social services), secondary (specialized medical and social services) and tertiary (highly specialized medical and social services) services offered by the entire local services network and all its partners. Each health and social services centres must ensure the population on its territory has access to medical services, general and specialized hospital services and social services. To do so, each health and social services centre must enter into service agreements with other partners in its local services network (medical clinics, family medicine groups, youth protection centres, rehabilitation centres, community organizations, university hospital centres, etc.), to provide all the services required by the population, including those it cannot provide on its own. The network of services created in this manner within a single territory thus forms the local services network.
The implementation of health and social services centres at the heart of local services networks will improve patient follow-up since each of the local networks will essentially become a hub where the public will have easier access to all of the services offered.
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