Island Health Tech Stack
Regional health authority serving 930,000 residents across Vancouver Island
Island Health operates as the largest employer on Vancouver Island with over 31,000 staff, managing a distributed network of hospitals, clinics, and residential facilities across rural and urban communities. The tech stack reflects a mature healthcare IT environment built on Epic Systems and Meditech for clinical operations, paired with legacy infrastructure (Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Access) that creates friction in modernization efforts. Current project focus—medication reconciliation, quality and safety frameworks, mental health service planning, and communicable disease control—reveals an organization balancing operational excellence with equity challenges, particularly in reaching underserved populations and reducing preventable admissions.
Tech Stack 23 technologies
What Island Health Is Building
◆Challenges
- Improving quality and safety
- Improving patient safety
- Patient and staff safety
- Reducing avoidable hospital admissions
- Continuously improve quality and safety
- Optimizing bed utilization
- Improving medication reconciliation accuracy
- Emergency department presentations
- Engaging hardest to reach population
- Budget management
▲Active Projects
- Quality and risk management activities
- Best possible medication history process
- Specialty training program
- Medication reconciliation process
- Planning priorities for service to adults with mental health and addictions problems
- Community clinics for hiv/sti/hepatitis testing
- Communicable disease control support
- Development of nutritional practice guidelines
- Quality and risk management leadership
- Home support services delivery
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Team Lead, Contract Negotiations Director, Project Director, HR Access Lead
