{"id":390124,"date":"2026-01-05T19:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390124\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:01:12","slug":"one-system-to-rule-them-all-nl-health-goes-digital-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390124\/","title":{"rendered":"One System to Rule Them All: NL Health Goes Digital This Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nlhs-nl-health-services-health-authority-logo.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"One System to Rule Them All: NL Health Goes Digital This Spring\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Major changes are coming to the way in which information is collected, stored and shared in the health care system.<\/p>\n<p>A single,\u00a0digital health system will be introduced in the spring, something NLHS is calling the \u201cgreatest transformation\u201d\u00a0the province\u2019s health system\u00a0will have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>NLHS says the adoption of <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2025\/08\/25\/nlhs-on-track-to-introducing-single-digital-health-system-in-the-spring\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CorCare<\/a> will not result in any layoffs, and the health authority is working with workers and their unions to ensure they\u2019re supported through the transition.<\/p>\n<p>The new system will enable the collection, management, storage and transmission of electronic medical records including patient charts.<\/p>\n<p>That may cause privacy concerns, but the province\u2019s privacy commissioner, Kerry Hatfield says there are a number of pieces of legislation, including the Personal Health Information Act (or PHIA) that come into play to ensure privacy is protected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat law (PHIA) is our protection,\u201d says Hatfield, \u201cit gives the health care providers rules about what personal health care information they can collect from us, it sets limits on what they can use it for, and who they can disclose it to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) Major changes are coming to the way in which information is collected, stored and shared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-390124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}