VANCOUVER – Telus Health has acquired 100% of the shares of Med Access Inc., a leading Kelowna-based company providing electronic medical record (EMR) services to 2,000 specialty and general practice physicians in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. The acquisition brings the total Telus Health EMR reach to more than 12,500 Canadian physicians, supporting more than 45 million patient interactions each year. Financial terms are not being disclosed.
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FREDERICTON – New Brunswick’s health minister says he’s willing to renegotiate a contract with the New Brunswick Medical Society in an effort to get more doctors connected to an electronic medical records system, but the society says the government has repeatedly stymied efforts to do that.
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OTTAWA – Summit Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare system integration and workflow automation technologies, recently announced an expanded partnership with Hôpital Montfort, a member of the Champlain Association of Meditech Partners (CHAMP) organization.
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KINGSTON, ONT. – Providence Care, a multi-site provider of aging, mental health and rehabilitative care, has joined a shared electronic patient record (ePR) system with Kingston General Hospital, an acute-care facility, and Hotel Dieu Hospital, which specializes in ambulatory services.
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By Rosie Lombardi
Patients are clamouring for more personal medical data and better communications with their doctors – and the healthcare sector needs to find a secure way to do that. One solution that is gaining traction is called mihealth, a messaging and personal health record (PHR) system which has been operational since 2011. The system was developed by Dr. Wendy Graham, founder and CEO of Toronto-based mihealth Global Systems and a family doctor with over 20 years practice experience. Today, several thousand patients are using mihealth in hospitals and clinics across Ontario and beyond.
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