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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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VICTORIA – B.C.’s health minister has stripped Vancouver Island’s health authority of decision-making power over a troubled electronic health records project in Nanaimo, after an external report was sharply critical of the authority’s management of the project.
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OTTAWA – Three Ottawa medical facilities will be implementing a new medical record system they say will allow healthcare providers to share and access patient records across a single network. The Ottawa Hospital, The Ottawa Hospital Academic Family Health Team and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute will be integrating their records with the Epic Health Information System.
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