EDMONTON – After high-profile figures in the political and medical establishment criticized Alberta’s electronic medical record (EMR) systems as fragmented and ineffective, the Health Minister launched a task force earlier this month to investigate how a more unified system could be created.
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QUEBEC CITY – Quebec’s Health Minister, Gaétan Barrette (pictured), says the province’s $1.6 billion investment in electronic health records has been a major disappointment. Far from the interoperable and seamless system that was envisioned, the province is left with numerous databases and repositories that can’t communicate.
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SURREY, BC – Fraser Health, Canada Health Infoway and Intrahealth, an EMR vendor, have announced a partnership to implement an Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (aEMR) system in six more of Fraser Health’s primary and ambulatory care clinics.
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TORONTO – NexJ Systems Inc., a provider of cloud-based software delivering enterprise solutions, announced that Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC) has selected NexJ Connected Wellness as its technology platform for delivering a Pan-Canadian Survivorship Program called True NTH. The program is funded by Movember, the global charity committed to changing the face of men’s health.
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In June, the CATAAlliance Mobile Health Advisory Board published a summary report from its Mobile Health Roundtable event, which was held in Ottawa.
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2015 could be a breakthrough year in Canada as a handful of hospitals prepare to be the first in the country to reach Stage 7 on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), a benchmarking scale developed by HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
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WHITBY, Ont. – Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) announced that it has received the prestigious HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7 award. Ontario Shores is the first hospital in Canada and the first mental health hospital in the world to receive this prestigious recognition. This designation is awarded to healthcare organizations for having a completely paperless health information system which advances the use of patient data to ultimately improve process and performance.
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TORONTO – CognisantMD, a health informatics software company, has announced a major milestone as they surpassed 100,000 patient record updates on the Ocean Platform. The cloud-based software provides a secure, controlled way for patients to contribute to their own Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) using mobile tablets, online questionnaires, and a library of over 400 clinical screening tools.
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TORONTO – Patients at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have a new tool when it comes to managing their mental health. The personal health tool is called ‘Mood Tracker’, and is now available through Sunnybrook’s MyChart service for patients and clinicians. It was developed in partnership with the Psychiatry clinician team, led by Dr. Ari Zaretsky (pictured), Chief of Psychiatry and VP Medical Education.
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OTTAWA – An editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal is calling for physicians to provide patients with clear access to their health records when stored in electronic medical record systems.
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