An X-ray technician is seen in this photo. X-ray reports will soon be available through the YourHealthNS app. (Communications Nova Scotia / File)

X-ray results will soon be available through the YourHealthNS app.

Nova Scotians will be able to see any X-rays done from July 15 onward. The results will be on the app 14 days after the scan.

The report includes findings from the X-ray, a comparison with any previous X-rays, the patient’s history and a summary. Images won’t be available.

“This is just the beginning as we plan to make more records and information available that will help Nova Scotians take a more active role in their health care, ” Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson said Monday in a news release.

Earlier this month, the Nova Scotia government expanded access to health records through the app to everybody in the province 16 and over with a valid health card.

That was after a three-month pilot project involving more than 13,000 patients at six clinics, including Queens Family Health in Liverpool. 

The X-ray reports will be in addition to the other information available on the app, including lab and some test results, hospital and health visits, medications and immunizations.

More than 600,000 X-rays were performed in Nova Scotia in 2023.

Queens General Hospital. Photo Ed Halverson

Residents of Queens will have the chance to bring their healthcare concerns to those directly responsible when the department of Health and Wellness listening tour stops at the Best Western in Liverpool this month.

Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson, Deputy Minister Jeannine Lagassé and Nova Scotia Health interim CEO Karen Oldfield are holding conversations in communities across Nova Scotia about the work underway to improve the healthcare system.

In a release announcing the events the department of health and wellness says participants will be able to ask questions and hear directly from those responsible for making change happen.

The health department issued a release Tuesday announcing the Emergency Department at Queens General Hospital will be closed for most of the week leading up to the event.

The ED will close Tuesday and Wednesday night, February 7 and 8. It will close again for the weekend beginning Friday at 1:30pm reopening Sunday morning at 8am then closing again at 1:30pm Sunday until 8am Monday morning.

The department will close again Tuesday afternoon until the morning of Wednesday the 15^th.

Anyone wishing to attend the community engagement session will need to register in advance.

Those who can’t be there in person can forward questions that will be discussed at the event by submitting them through the online registration link.

The listening tour will be held at the Best Western in Liverpool on Friday February 17 from 1:00 until 3:00pm.

To register for the Community Health Conversations event follow this link.

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