July 18, 2018
TORONTO – Infoway plans to invest up to $70 million to deploy computerized healthcare solutions in Atlantic Canada and leverage the talent and innovation that currently exists throughout the region.
The program will be ramped up via ACCESS Atlantic, an initiative announced by Ginette Petitpas Taylor (pictured), Canada’s Minister of Health.
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July 4, 2018
REGINA – eHealth Saskatchewan, which manages the province’s personal medical records, has launched a ‘follow the money’ investigation into the organization’s contracts. Three employees have been dismissed “with cause” in relation to the investigation.
The agency, which manages the province’s personal medical records, confirmed the dismissals in recent committee meetings at the Saskatchewan legislature under questioning by the NDP’s Danielle Chartier.
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July 4, 2018
TORONTO – The myUHN Patient Portal has reached a significant milestone – 50,000 registered patients. myUHN is a secure website that makes appointments, test results, pathology and diagnostic imaging reports and clinic notes available to patients in real-time.
It allows patients to share their information with their caregivers or family doctor, empowering them to become partners in care. myUHN also includes patient education resource links, to help patients and caregivers better understand health information.
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July 3, 2018
Toronto’s Humber River Hospital continues to be the trendsetter when it comes to building the “digital hospital” in Canada. Just last November, Humber River launched North America’s first “Command Centre”, a room filled with large computer screens that display real-time information about what’s happening in key areas of the hospital. The data feeds include ED capacity and waits, as well as patient status and length-of-stay in other parts of the hospital. Read More
May 1, 2018
Consider the care journey many patients face as they negotiate their way through multiple hospitals in the healthcare system to be diagnosed and treated. A patient in a rural area, for example, might first go to the nearest hospital for tests and initial treatment. There would be registration, care visits and scans performed. If there’s a need for specialized care outside the scope of that facility, then the patient is referred to a specialist at a larger hospital for more treatment. Read More
May 1, 2018
TORONTO – While other hospitals have been implementing commercial electronic health record systems, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has created its own health information system – called SunnyCare. It has done this over the past few years, tying together best-of-breed components from the private sector and adding its own, home-grown software to create a solution like nothing else available in Canada. Read More
April 25, 2018
TORONTO – The Hospital for Sick Children is aiming to go live with its new, Epic-based electronic health record system on June 2nd. According to the hospital, the system will fundamentally change the way SickKids provides care.
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April 25, 2018
TORONTO – VitalHub Corp. is pleased to announce that the Northern Regional Health Authority, in Manitoba, has licensed VitalHub’s B Care Electronic Health Record software to support their child and community mental health programs.
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March 28, 2018
HALIFAX – The Nova Scotia government is offering doctors a pay and incentive package worth $39.6 million. Part of the funding will be used to pay for telephone consults, as well to incentivize doctors to use electronic medical records.
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March 1, 2018
Emergency physicians in Saskatoon, as well as medical practitioners across the province, are getting used to speaking into microphones, and it’s changing the way they work and care for patients. Read More