Viewing articles in the ‘Electronic Records’ topic.
January 31, 2019
RICHMOND HILL, ONT. – In November, Mackenzie Health announced that it had become the first acute-care hospital in Canada to achieve Stage 7 on the HIMSS EMRAM scale. Stage 7 is the highest rung on a ladder that measures end-user adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) functions. Read More
January 23, 2019
FREDERICTON, NB – The provincial government is implementing a new electronic health record system that aims to improve the management of vaccines, immunizations and potential disease outbreaks.
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January 9, 2019
TORONTO – VitalHub Corp. has announced it will install its B Care system at The Salvation Army’s Toronto Grace Health Centre. TGHC is a 119-bed facility, owned and operated by The Salvation Army, located in the heart of downtown Toronto. It provides patient-centered care for individuals with multi-faceted chronic diseases who require complex continuing care, post-acute care rehabilitation and palliative care.
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January 9, 2019
LINDSAY, Ont. – A donation from a private company, Canada Protection Plan Inc., has enabled the Ross Memorial Hospital to purchase and implement a ‘tracker board’ for the hospital’s Emergency Department.
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December 19, 2018
HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s doctors say the province hasn’t tapped into their knowledge in the search for a vendor for a One Person One Record system, even though they will be important users of the system and have deep expertise about electronic records.
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December 5, 2018
ST. JOHN’S, NL – Physicians across Canada may have missed seeing the medical results of their patients because of a software issue involving an electronic medical record program. Most of the patients were in Newfoundland and Labrador, where medical test results for 615 patients between November 2017 and last month were delivered late to healthcare providers, who may have been delayed in bringing the results to patients.
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November 7, 2018
RICHMOND HILL, Ont. – Mackenzie Health has become the first Canadian acute-care hospital with an emergency department and intensive care unit to receive the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 7 certification. This achievement recognizes the hospital’s adoption of digital health solutions that help deliver on its promise of world-class, safe and efficient care for its growing community.
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October 29, 2018
NEWMARKET, ONT. – Southlake Regional Health Centre has partnered with Toronto-based startup MedChart Inc. to allow patients and authorized third parties to easily request and quickly obtain medical records online, day or night. Read More
September 27, 2018
TORONTO – The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has integrated a new version of M*Modal’s dictation solution, equipped with high-accuracy speech recognition, with its newly installed Epic patient record system. Read More
September 5, 2018
HALIFAX – The Nova Scotia government is investing more than $4 million to support family doctors to communicate with patients by telephone and through e-health services. Family doctors who take part in the technology incentive pilot program can receive up to $12,000 a year to communicate with their patients by telephone or through MyHealthNS.
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