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Health
Mike Martineau launches eHealth blog
 OTTAWA – eHealth
consultant and entrepreneur Michael Martineau (pictured) has launched
ehealthmusings.ca, a blog
that examines issues surrounding the use of electronic health records. The
site, found at
www.ehealthmusings.ca,
provides comment and analysis of current developments.
The blog covers such topics as QHR’s recent move to acquire Clinicare,
the results of the Infoway audit, and new funding for physician IT in
Ontario.
Commentary on other articles and publications is also included. In a
recent posting, Martineau notes: “In his first article on the Canadian
eHealth agenda, Bill Pascal suggested that we need to resolve many
policy issues. I am going to go further and state that we need to create
an organization at the national level charged with creating and driving
Canadian eHealth policy. Many other countries, including the US, have
created such an organization and their leaders are providing critical
leadership and visibility with respect to their country’s eHealth
agenda.
“While Infoway is a vital and important component of the Canadian
eHealth landscape, it was not intended to be a policy organization. What
do other people think? How do we best drive resolving the many policy
issues associated with eHealth in Canada. What, in your opinion, are the
key policy issues that need to be resolved?”
(Bill Pascal, the Chief Technology Officer for the Canadian Medical
Association, published the first in what he plans to be a series of
articles on the Canadian eHealth agenda in Health Information Management
& Communications Canada – the journal of COACH, the Canadian health
informatics association.)
A number of people provided Bill with input and feedback including me.
We’d like to solicit input on Bill’s thoughts and suggestions and will
use this blog as one vehicle to do so. To stimulate debate we will
publish blog posts on various topics related to the Canadian eHealth
agenda. You can contribute by either commenting on these posts or by
writing posts of your own on which others can comment. If you are
interested in publishing a blog post as a guest author please contact:
michael.martineau@rogers.com.
Posted Nov. 26, 2009
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