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Strategic GIS Approach for Ontario Local Health Integration Networks

This project will create a GIS (geographic information system) Strategic and Business Plan for 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) in Ontario.

The LHIN GIS Strategic and Business Plan will focus on one representative LHIN-Central East LHIN-and consider the unique requirements of the 13 others. These other LHINs will leverage the plan to build their own GIS capacity.

LHINs are not-for-profit corporations that plan, integrate, and fund local health services within specific geographic areas. These services include home care, long-term care, and mental health care as well as services offered by spitals and community care access centres.

The GIS Strategic and Business Plan will help answer questions, common to all LHINs, such as what data are required and what operations systems can be tied into a GIS. Senior management will use the plan to integrate information systems and build information-systems capacity. In addition, numerous local, provincial, and national health service providers will be able to use the plan in directing their organizations.

The project will ensure the GIS architecture of the LHINs in Ontario will enable easy interaction with the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure. By better equipping LHINs to plan, coordinate, and fund community health services, this project will help Ontarians determine and meet their health service needs and priorities.


Primary Partner: Central East LHIN and the Ontario LHINs Data Working Group on behalf of the 14 LHINs in Ontario  Ajax,  Ontario;

Partners:
Infonaut
ESRI Canada

Funding From GeoConnections: $33,000.00 ( 36.0 %)

Estimated Inception Date: April, 2007

Estimated Completion Date: October, 2007

Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Ontario;