Patients often fall through the cracks of our current paper-based referral system, which requires a great deal of phoning, faxing, and follow-up between family doctors and specialists. Different regions are trying to automate referrals, but Alberta is the first jurisdiction in Canada to roll out a province-wide e-referral portal.
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Most hospitals opt for an incremental approach to implementing EHR systems, often out of fear of joining the line-up of horror stories in the media about big IT project failures. But if the right elements are in place, the big bang approach – implementing everything all at once – can work.
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VICTORIA – IBM Canada has opted out of an $842 million health records project in British Columbia, after a disagreement with the provincial government over the strategy needed to create the advanced EHR system. The system, known as the Clinical + Systems Transformation project, is intended to be jointly used by caregivers at Vancouver Coastal Health, Provincial Health Services Authority and Providence Health Care.
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BURLINGTON, Ont. – Bay Area Records Conversion (BARC) has won a contract to provide record scanning services for Joseph Brant Hospital (JBH). The three-year contract involves annually converting an estimated 2.5 million pages of paper patient records into digital images, and uploading these images into the hospital’s electronic record system.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, has announced HealthShare Personal Community, a patient engagement solution built on the interoperable InterSystems HealthShare health informatics platform.
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CHICAGO – Black Book Rankings named Allscripts Sunrise platform as the top overall inpatient electronic health record (EHR) for large hospitals and academic medical centres in 2015. Allscripts Sunrise also achieved this recognition in 2014.
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CUMBRIA, UK – NHS trusts in Cumbria, in northwest England, can now make electronic referrals to social care services if they believe a child is at risk. The child safeguarding e-referral system was developed by Strata Health and is currently available at Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.
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TORONTO – Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) has been recognized for achieving Stage 6 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model; it is only the fifth Canadian hospital to achieve this level. The HIMSS Analytics Adoption score measures organizational progress towards the ultimate goal of a paperless patient record.
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HALIFAX – Nova Scotia announced that it will implement a new, province-wide electronic medical information system called One Person, One Record. The province would like to operate just one health information system that gives providers the patient information they need, instead of the myriad of fragmented systems they must access today.
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VICTORIA – An electronic health records project estimated to cost $842 million faces completion delays and efficiency issues, B.C.’s Opposition New Democrats said, citing leaked documents.
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