What is ConnectMyHealth?

ConnectMyHealth is a digital health solution that provides you with an online, single access channel to view your health records from many healthcare facilities in Ontario. ConnectMyHealth can be used on desktop and mobile devices from within Canada, there's no cost to use it, and there's no app to download when accessing your account via the web. 

The development and implementation of ConnectMyHealth is managed by the HITS eHealth Office at Hamilton Health Sciences, is funded by Ontario Health, and will be made available to patients in Ontario Health West Region in collaboration with your local Ontario Health Team. The HITS eHealth Office operates the ConnectMyHealth Program Office.  

ConnectMyHealth is different than other patient portals because it combines various types of health records created at hospitals you've been to in the Ontario Health West Region into one, consolidated view. Additional data sources, like community-based laboratories and radiology clinics, are expected to be added in the near future. ConnectMyHealth can be an ideal complement to in-person or virtual visits with your care providers by providing you easy access to your hospital records, and to additional functionality you may have through your local hospital, like appointment scheduling. 

Other key features of ConnectMyHealth include: 

• New Results Alerts: Subscribe to be notified by email when you’ve got new results available to view in ConnectMyHealth; your New Results page displays first when you log in, for quick and easy viewing
• Patient Dashboard: Customize your patient dashboard view by organizing the types of health records (modules) that are most important to you 
• Patient Visits Timeline: View your upcoming scheduled hospital appointments, where available

Functionality to 'share your records' with your family and care partners who are also ConnectMyHealth users is expected to be added in the near future.