About POSP
The role of the Physician Office System Program (POSP) is to
enable the use of electronic medical records by
physicians, who provide insured services in Alberta, to improve
patient care and support best practice care delivery within
Alberta's electronic health environment.
Through a combination of funding, information technology
services and change management services, POSP has helped close to
half of Alberta's practicing physicians to incorporate information
technology into their practices.
Some of the initiatives that POSP supports or is responsible for
include:
- Developing solutions to move patient data from one physician
office system to another.
- Reducing the risk of data loss in physician offices caused by
human, hardware or software failure.
- Working with stakeholders to update the Vendor Conformance and
Usability Requirements (VCUR) for physician offices. These
requirements are reviewed regularly to ensure they continue to
reflect the needs of all stakeholders.
- Collaborating with Alberta Health Services and Alberta Health
and Wellness to provide integration and interoperability with
provincial systems (e.g., the Pharmaceutical Information Network
(PIN), lab test results and diagnostic imaging text reports).
- Supporting physician compliance with the Health Information
Act by providing resources to conduct privacy impact
assessments.
- Providing a broad range of change management services to
support those physicians who are already automated and who depend
on their EMR solutions to be fully functional every day.
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the Physician Office System Program Fact Sheet