Viewing articles in the ‘Electronic Records’ topic.
October 7, 2015
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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September 2, 2015
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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September 2, 2015
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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August 19, 2015
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. Read More
July 8, 2015
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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July 8, 2015
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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June 30, 2015
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. Read More
June 30, 2015
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. Read More
June 3, 2015
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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May 20, 2015
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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