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County of <br />Essex <br />The Corporation of the County of Essex <br />By -Law Number 30-2017 <br />A By-law to Authorize the Execution of the Clinical <br />Connect Participation Agreement between Hamilton <br />Health Sciences Corporation (HHS) and; the Corporation of <br />the County of Essex <br />Whereas Essex Windsor Emergency Medical Services (EMS) launched the <br />Vulnerable Patient Navigators (VPN) program in August 2016 as a way to <br />help ease the strain on the ambulance service by focusing on patients who <br />utilize EMS services greater than three times in a year; <br />And Whereas the VPN program has found that researching a patient's <br />current medical history so that a clear clinical picture of who the patient is <br />can be formulated and identifying necessary services that will help keep the <br />patient at home, healthy and where they want to be is critical, but can <br />create increased administrative pressures; <br />And Whereas Clinical Connect is a secure, web -based portal that provides <br />physicians and clinicians with real-time access to their patients' electronic <br />medical information and is funded by eHealth Ontario; <br />And Whereas Hamilton Health Science is the solution provider for Clinical <br />Connect; <br />And Whereas Clinical Connect will allow the VPN's access to medical <br />records for all of their patients, including any hospital visits, various <br />diagnostic images, multiple lab results, and current pharmaceutical <br />prescriptions; <br />And Whereas access to Clinical Connect would be limited to the VPN Team; <br />Now therefore the Council of the Corporation of the County of Essex <br />hereby enacts as follows: <br />