RENFREW, Ont. – Five rural hospitals in Eastern Ontario have implemented a Single Sign-On system from Imprivata, enabling clinicians to easily access electronic charts and files from a wide variety of systems.
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TORONTO – LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services has announced the upcoming provincial launch of my results, which will allow Ontario patients to quickly, easily and securely access most of their LifeLabs laboratory test results online, free of charge.
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Hamilton Health Sciences has gone live with a system that automatically feeds data from over 400 vital sign monitors into the electronic medical records of patients.
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A hospital that runs an electronic health record (EHR) platform without a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system is only half-pregnant. It isn’t a truly electronic system until the thousands of paper order entries that flow around the hospital outside the EHR systemare incorporated into it.
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KELOWNA, BC – QHR Technologies Inc. has announced its plans to purchase all of the healthcare assets of Jonoke Software Development Inc.., including its proprietary Electronic Medical Record software.
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TORONTO – The Ontario Hospital Association is kicking-off a series of educational conferences and webinars on the topic of eHealth. The programs will cover Ontario’s latest directions in eHealth; how to improve hospital EHR systems and achieve a higher standing in the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM ratings; getting Board members on board with electronic information systems; and strategies for best implementing CPOE and evidence-based medicine.
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HAMILTON, Ont. – An active family leadership program has enabled the patient and family portal to exceed expected enrollment at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, in Toronto. After the ‘connect2care’ portal was launched in December of 2014, “We actively enrolled inpatients, outpatients and community clients, whenever they were available,” said Amir Karmali (pictured, right), a family integrated care specialist at Holland Bloorview and the father of a Holland Bloorview client.
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TORONTO – Patients of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s Psychiatry department now have access to their medical records like never before. Through the hospital’s MyChart personal health record system, Psychiatry patients can request confidential online access of their clinic visit notes.
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REGINA – eHealth Saskatchewan now has an easier way to track a patient’s history, particularly when it concerns immunizations and vaccinations. The online system and database known as Panorama has a single confidential record for each person who holds a Saskatchewan health card. It is accessible only to doctors and nurses.
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WHITBY, ONT. – Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) recently became the first hospital in Canada – and the first mental health hospital in the world – to achieve the prestigious HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 award. The announcement was made last fall.
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