iHealth is Island Health’s integrated electronic health record (EHR) system that provides safe, quality care, and an improved patient experience. It captures, records, reports, integrates and communicates patient information to help clinicians make better decisions and perform routine tasks in a consistent manner.
iHealth relies on significant amounts of hardware, from bar code printers and scanners, to workstations and monitors, and all the IT devices and software that run in the background.
Evolve is providing electrical and communication engineering expertise to coordinate the deployment of a vast quantity of the communications infrastructure required to support the iHealth devices. The new iHealth infrastructure requires upgrades to dozens of telecommunications closets, over 20km of fibre optic cabling, and several hundred new data drops and power outlets.
Work is required in almost every area of Island Health’s major facilities and has to be performed while working around ongoing hospital operation.