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Cancer Care Ontario is an umbrella organization that steers and coordinates Ontario’s cancer services and prevention efforts. As the provincial government’s chief cancer advisor, Cancer Care Ontario directs over $600-million in public health care funding for cancer prevention, detection and care. The agency also operates screening and prevention programs; collects, monitors and reports information about cancer and cancer system performance; develops evidence-based standards and guidelines for health care providers; and works with regional providers to plan and improve cancer services.
The CIO Portfolio is CCO´s Information Technology/Information Management (IT/IM) Division. It supports CCO´s objectives through the use of innovative eHealth, IT and IM tools such as: a sophisticated data warehouse (iPORTTM), web portals, web tools, electronic document repositories, customized software development, integration engines, computerized physician order entry systems, and electronic business intelligence tools.
CCO´s IT/IM division also manages special projects for the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MoHLTC) such as the Access to Care Program including Ontario´s innovative Wait Times Strategy. In 2007, Cancer Care Ontario´s WTIS-EMPI project won the Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) Diamond Award of Excellence and Institute of Public Administration of Canada´s (IPAC) Gold Award for Innovative Management.
The information on our website is at:
http://www.cancercare.on.ca
We are guided in most part by the Ontario Cancer Plan, which can be inspected at:
http://www.ontariocancerplan.on.ca
Information about Ontario’s ColonCancerCheck program managed by Cancer Care Ontario can be found at:
http://www.coloncancercheck.ca
Cancer Care Ontario manages the medical procedures wait times information system for all Ontarians; which can be examined more closely at:
http://www.ontariowaittimes.ca
View our listing of all other CCO current job postings at:
http://www.cancercare.on.ca/careers