CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and LONDON, Ont. – InterSystems, a global leader in healthcare information technology, has partnered with Pulse Infoframe, a leader in collaborative research and patient registry solutions, to facilitate clinical research and population health studies.
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RICHMOND HILL, ONT. – Mackenzie Health is going ahead with a full implementation of the Epic hospital information system, as part of its drive to achieve Level 7 in the HIMSS EMRAM scale within three years. In the process, Mackenzie Health, which is opening a second major site in 2019, will become the first hospital in Canada to implement the full suite of Epic systems.
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NANAIMO, B.C. – Patient records are about to go paperless as Island Health launches a new electronic medical record system in Nanaimo. Nanaimo will be ground zero for IHealth, the health authority’s new $178-million medical system, set to roll out this February.
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When Toronto East General Hospital started its automation journey in 1997, the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) didn’t even exist. Now, 18 years since implementing its first “view-only” systems to provide clinicians with better access to information, the 515-bed community teaching hospital is being recognized as the fifth Canadian hospital to achieve Level 6 on the adoption scale.
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – The Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has joined the ranks of healthcare organizations offering a patient portal with secure access to test results and much more.
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MOBILE, Ala. – Evident, a wholly owned subsidiary of CPSI and a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) systems and services in the United States, has announced its intent to provide its health information system and electronic medical record (EMR) solution to Canadian hospitals and physicians.
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WHITBY, Ont. – Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences has been named a 2016 recipient of the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Enterprise Award for Excellence. Ontario Shores is the first hospital in Canada and one of 77 organizations in the world to receive this prestigious recognition.
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OTTAWA – The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) has become the first hospital in Canada to receive a Stage 6 electronic health records designation for its outpatient clinics from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). This makes CHEO one of very few – less than 1% of 650 Canadian hospitals – to have come this far in implementing electronic patient records.
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EDMONTON – Alberta is connecting the various provincial systems that house immunization records, in a bid to improve vaccination rates and to manage infectious disease outbreaks if and when a crisis should occur. An integrated network should be ready to use by next year.
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VICTORIA, BC – Cerner will replace IBM as the lead contractor in the $842 million electronic health record integration project in British Columbia. The system, known as the Clinical + Systems Transformation project, is intended to modernize and integrate the clinical systems used by caregivers at Vancouver Coastal Health, Provincial Health Services Authority and Providence Health Care.
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