Chronological Progress of NNAIMS
In 1997, the federal government allocated $50 million over three years to promote the development of a pan-Canadian Health Information System. It created the Office of Health and the Information Highway (now the Health and Information Highway Division) within Health Canada to coordinate Federal efforts.
In 1999, the federal government allocated an additional $95 million to fund the Health Information Roadmap Initiative, a collaborative venture between Health Canada, Statistics Canada, and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) to providing ongoing assessments of the health of Canadians and of the health of Canada’s healthcare system.
That same year, the government funded the Canadian Health Network, a telehealth initiative to increase health awareness among the general public.
In 2000, Canada Health Infoway, a major non-profit corporation, was created to accelerate the implementation of electronic health records and promote the modernization and expansion of health info-structure.
In 2001 the National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation manages the development of a project that had been planned for a number of years. This project refers to the Addictions information system for First Nations and Inuit. This project is to replace the SRAT and the SIPAST and must provide amongst other functions an accurate referral system so that prevention workers may have access treatment beds for their clients. The NNAIMS will serve as an integrated tool for the management of people and programs for NNADAP and for the YSAC treatment centres in Canada.
In 2002, NNAPF has completed the National Native Addictions Information Management System (NNAIMS) and hands it over to Health Canada, providing the technical codes for implementation of the system in all NNADAP Treatment and Prevention Projects in Canada.
Since 2002, Health Canada has been developing the National Native Addiction Information Management System (NNAIMS). This state-of-the-art Web-based information management system based on the Oracle database engine is expected to complete its rollout in 2007. The NNAIMS will serve as an integrated client, program and administrative management tool for both NNADAP and the seven residential Youth Solvent Abuse Treatment Centres (YSAC) in Canada.
In 2004-2005, the Department piloted the National Native Addictions Information Management System (NNAIMS) in two treatment centres in the Atlantic region.