HHS transfers Integrated Decision Support to OHA
February 3, 2021
TORONTO – The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) has announced the transfer of Integrated Decision Support (IDS) to the OHA from Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS). Launched in 2009, IDS is a leading collaborative solution for sharing integrated health partner data for planning and analytics. Through its data sharing platform across a host of subscribers – including hospitals, home and community care, primary care, public health and EMS – IDS equips healthcare providers with linked data of their shared-care patients, which allows them to address common challenges that can only be solved through their combined efforts.
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