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May 4, 2022
HAMILTON, Ont. – In June, Hamilton Health Sciences is introducing its new Epic hospital information system. The electronic solution will make patient records available to clinicians in a centralized location, reducing the need to call up different applications. Moreover, patients will have access to their medical information – including test results, lab results and much more – through the Epic MyChart app.
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May 4, 2022
KINGSTON, Ont. – Novari Health is pleased to announce it has completed another successful implementation of its surgical wait list management and eBooking technology. Hôpital Montfort of Ottawa is the latest Canadian hospital to implement Novari’s surgical and endoscopy access to care technology.
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April 29, 2022
Hospitals in Ontario – and the rest of Canada – became aware of the importance of accurate data like never before during the COVID-19 pandemic. “What became really clear was the importance of data integrity,” said Tara Coxon, vice president and CIO at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton. Read More
April 29, 2022
VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) – a leading Ontario-based homecare organization – has partnered with Pixalere Healthcare Inc. (pixalere.com), pioneers in wound management clinical software, to successfully co-develop a comprehensive, clinically focused home & community-based EMR. Read More
April 20, 2022
TORONTO – University Health Network is just weeks away from a new era featuring a single source of truth for each patient journey and the replacement of dozens of electronic and paper systems that don’t always ‘talk’ to each other. The Epic health information system (HIS) will launch on June 4, enhancing clinical transformation, improving patient safety and the clinical experience for patients and staff alike.
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April 20, 2022
VANCOUVER – WELL Health Technologies Corp. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, WELL Ventures, has made a significant minority investment in Tali.ai, an AI-powered virtual assistant. Tali.ai enables doctors and other healthcare providers to easily retrieve essential information from their EMR software and issue voice commands using Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms.
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April 13, 2022
SURREY, B.C. – Fraser Health announced the selection of MEDITECH Expanse to transform care and promote better health outcomes for the more than 1.9 million people it serves throughout 20 diverse communities. The system will be used to support 32 facilities across the region.
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March 23, 2022
OTTAWA and TORONTO – Working together, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and CHEO have both achieved HIMSS Stage 7, the world’s highest designation for using an electronic medical record (EMR) to improve patient outcomes and engagement – which makes this achievement about safety and quality of care for children and youth; not only about technology.
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March 16, 2022
HAMILTON, Ont. – On June 4, Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is going fully digital with a new hospital information system called Epic. Healthcare providers will do away with paper charts, and all health information will be recorded and accessed digitally, from test results to medication lists to after-visit summaries. For HHS heart patients, this means an improvement in communication and access to test results.
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March 2, 2022
TORONTO – Canada’s largest mental health hospital, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), has gone live with an implementation of Novari Health’s electronic referral management, central intake, and workflow management solution. The software as a service (SaaS) technology is being provided as an electronic means to ensure that all inbound referrals to CAMH are received, triaged, processed, and electronically routed to the appropriate CAMH clinical resources.
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