TORONTO and KINGSTON, Ont. – The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), having conducted a rigorous procurement process for an enterprise-wide referral management and central intake solution, has selected Novari Health technology. Novari eRequest is a scalable referral management, central intake and workflow management solution that can be deployed at an individual hospital, regional, provincial, or national level.
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Four hospitals in Southwestern Ontario are well on their way toward completing a transition to a region-wide, state-of-the-art hospital information system (HIS). Erie Shores Healthcare in Leamington went live with Cerner Corporation’s Millennium HIS September 27th and the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance and Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare in Windsor flipped the switch November 1. Windsor Regional Hospital is currently scheduled to go live in April.
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VANCOUVER – WELL Health Technologies Corp., a company focused on consolidating and modernizing clinical and digital assets within the healthcare sector, announced that it has acquired Open Health Software Solutions Inc, an OSCAR service provider to medical clinics primarily located in Ontario. The company also said that it has transitioned all clinics from ClearMedica Corp., formerly a certified OSCAR service provider, onto WELL’s OSCAR Pro platform.
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TORONTO – A new report from KLAS – its first-ever that focuses on the Canadian EMR sector – reports that Epic has grown significantly in Canada since 2015, becoming the preferred option in large, multihospital decisions. From 2015–2019, seven decisions finalized in favor of Epic, increasing their market share in the country from a single hospital to over 130 sites and making Epic the second largest EMR vendor in Canada in terms of hospitals contracted.
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REGINA – eHealth Saskatchewan, which manages the provinces healthcare IT system, says the provincial government has underfunded the organization for years, putting patient care at risk.
A briefing note prepared for Saskatchewan’s Minister of Health warns that eHealth, which runs the province’s healthcare IT system, has been underfunded for years and is at growing risk of failure, which could potentially affect patient safety.
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EDMONTON – Alberta Health Services has started using cloud-based medical dictation services, enabling clinicians to dictate from virtually any device and to create reports within minutes. That’s reducing the need for outsourced transcription services, which can take days or more to return reports.
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TORONTO – By leveraging its partnership with Humber River Hospital, Runnymede Healthcare Centre has gone live with Meditech Expanse in just an eight-month timeframe, enabling the organization to move from a completely paper-based system to a fully electronic health record (EHR) solution.
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VANCOUVER and MONTREAL – WELL Health Technologies Corp., a company focused on consolidating and modernizing clinical and digital assets within the healthcare sector, has acquired ExcelleMD Inc. and its affiliate VirtuelMED Inc. ExcelleMD is a Montréal based omni-channel healthcare company providing both virtual and in-person care via its five multi-disciplinary clinics and 38 healthcare practitioners.
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CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI – Prince Edward Island is just weeks away from announcing a new electronic medical system for doctors, providing connectivity among physician practices and with hospitals. According to media reports, the provincial government had hoped for a fully functioning system by now, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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HAMILTON, Ont. – Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) confirmed that it is taking the next step toward digital transformation by renewing its hospital information system (HIS) using the Epic solution. This multi-year project will enable significant advancements in the safety and efficiency of health service delivery at one of the province’s largest hospital networks.
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