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Diagnostic images and reports from across the province now available to health care providers With the recent launch of the Diagnostic Imaging (DI) Common Service, health care providers can now view diagnostic images and reports performed at facilities across the province, in one place.  In August, the service was made available to all authorized users in the Greater Toronto Area as well as in northern and eastern Ontario through the ConnectingOntario ClinicalViewer.  It’s also now available at two hospital organizations in south west Ontario, providing additional patient data to ClinicalConnect users who currently see reports and images and produced within their own region, and is being rolled out to more sites in the coming months. Thanks to this integration, health care providers can now obtain a more complete picture of their patient’s health, regardless of their location.   Watch the video above to see how health care providers like Dr. Koff benefit by having quick access to their patients’ diagnostic images and reports. This helps to eliminate the need for patients to carry around CD’s containing their DI information to specialist’s offices. It also eliminates the need to mail or fax test results, and the costly duplication of scans. Most importantly for patients, this network allows specialists at one facility to access images performed at other locations, allowing for more informed, timely medical decisions.

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