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October 14, 2020
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Trillium Health Partners announced that it went live with its new Epic Systems electronic health record system. The go-live occurred on October 10. The organization said the new system will provide seamless access to patient information through one point of access, across all of THP’s sites.
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October 7, 2020
TORONTO – The Health Records feature within the Apple Health app is now available for users in Canada to securely view and store their medical records, right on their iPhone, with their privacy protected at all times. Women’s College Hospital, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, and Mackenzie Health are the first healthcare institutions in Canada to make this feature available to their patients.
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September 9, 2020
MONTREAL – The Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) is pleased to have acquired the Patient Connect interface, a solution allowing it to connect its biomedical equipment to computer patient records. The system makes it possible to collect the vital signs of hospitalized patients in real-time and integrate them directly into their electronic medical records.
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June 30, 2020
TORONTO – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Ontario Medical Association are collaborating to extend the functionality of the MyChart patient portal, to support patients and doctors communicating online more easily, saving both time and effort. Read More
June 24, 2020
HAMILTON, ON– Hamilton Health Sciences announced that it has chosen to move to the Epic electronic medical record system, and has entered into negotiations with Epic to begin the implementation in September and to aim for a full “go-live” in June 2022.
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May 1, 2020
TORONTO – InputHealth, a Canadian healthcare software company known for its Collaborative Health Record (CHR) platform, has signed a contract to supply the Ontario Health West region with a newly devised solution for rapidly screening, triaging and treating patients according to the urgency of their care. Read More
May 1, 2020
By the middle of March of this year, the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic was clear to all, and the Goldman Herzl Family Practice Centre in Montréal was instructed to shift its regular, in-person visits to virtual encounters. In fact, management asked that 70 percent of the clinic’s volume be transferred to telemedicine visits in a matter of three days. Read More
April 29, 2020
TORONTO – The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Sunnybrook) announced their joint effort to expand and enhance MyChart, Canada’s largest personal online health portal designed specifically for patients and through them for their families, physicians and personal care teams.
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April 22, 2020
TORONTO – Toronto Public Health has launched a new technology solution for COVID-19 case management and contact tracing work. The city’s medical officer of health, Dr. Eileen de Villa (pictured), said the new tool, dubbed the Coronavirus Rapid Entry Case and Contact Management System, or CORES, is a web-based solution that “allows our team to quickly and easily document each individual case efficiently and share data with the provincial ministry of health.”
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February 19, 2020
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – KLAS has published the Best in KLAS 2020 Global (Non-US) report. This report highlights the top performing Acute Care EMR and PACS vendors in each global region.
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