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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.