ConnectMyHealth is a digital health solution that provides you with an online, single access channel to view your health records from participating hospitals in Ontario Health West Region (Southwestern Ontario). ConnectMyHealth can be used on desktop and mobile devices from within Canada, and there's no cost to use it. ConnectMyHealth is a web-based tool, so there is no app to download to access your account on an ongoing basis. For added security, an Authenticator app (i.e. Google Authenticator, Twilio Authy, FreeOTP) is required to support your Two-Step (Multi-Factor) Authentication during each login to ConnectMyHealth and instructions are provided of how to complete this free, one-time download.
ConnectMyHealth is operated by the HITS eHealth Office at Hamilton Health Sciences, is funded by Ontario Health, and is being made available to patients in Ontario Health West Region in collaboration with local Ontario Health Teams. 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:
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.
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