The province’s health authority is on track to transform patient care through shared access to real-time medical records.
NL Health Services is building and testing its new CorCare online health information system this year, with plans to go live next April.
It’s designed to enhance the MyHealthNL portal with more real-time results on one network across acute, long-term, and community care.
Officials say it will be consistent and available to each health provider, so patients won’t have to repeat their history over and over.
NL Health Services CEO Pat Parfrey expects some short-term pain for the greater long-term gain.
“Come April 2026, there’s going to be a big rollout all across the province with every single hospital and clinic taking on a new health information system. So that period of two or three months for sure will be a challenge,” he said. “It is definitely transformational, it’s something to be welcomed. But at the same time it has its risks if we don’t roll it out properly.”
The CorCare system will cost the province more than $600 million over 10 years, and replace Telus Med Access, CRMS, or Client and Referral Management System, and Meditech, which was victimized in the 2021 cyberattack.
