Starting in January 2025, patient results for most Medical Imaging and Departmental Reports will only be received electronically through your Med Access EMR. This applies only to eDOCSNL users with full electronic report delivery enabled.
This decision is a result of an agreement made by the CEOs of the previous Regional Health Authorities (and supported by current NLHS leadership) and at the request of and in consultation with the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association.
To ensure the reliability and accuracy of electronic results distribution, eDOCSNL has completed formal data validation exercises. The validation has repeatedly demonstrated the reliability and accuracy of electronic results distribution. These validation processes will continue as a standardized quality assurance process to validate and confirm reliability of electronic results distribution.
Note: this will NOT eliminate the distribution of ALL paper results sent to clinics. Not all patient results are distributed to EMRs electronically, these results will continue to follow the existing mailing process. Therefore, it is critical that you review these paper results as they will not be found in your EMR.
The practice of NLHS calling or faxing providers with critical results will continue to be the standard for notification of critical results.
As part of this decision, the electronic results distributed to users will be standardized. In some cases this may mean you will start seeing additional electronic results delivered to your EMR. This is to ensure that all mailed paper results that are being turned off will be accessible in your EMR.
A FAQ document covering common questions/concerns can be found here.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation as we implement this new process. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at info@edocsnl.ca