TORONTO, Ont. – Sensory Technologies Inc. (Sensory Tech) is pleased to announce that the Chatham Kent EMS community paramedic team will soon be able to view real time patient care information, enhancing decision-making when in a patient’s home, through access to eShift. During each community paramedic visit the details will be documented using the eShift chart feature and be made available to authorized members of the community of care. This new functionality will enable directing clinicians in the region to have updated records of care with real time data regardless of patient diagnoses or referral source.
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TORONTO – Orion Health, a leader in population health management and healthcare integration solutions, announced that Alberta’s Community Information Integration (CII) Program has gone live. Patient information is now flowing from an early adopter primary care clinic, powered securely from a remote cloud infrastructure by Orion Health’s Software as a Service (SaaS) in a managed private cloud setting.
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TORONTO – Telus Health has announced the launch of MedDialog, a national clinical solution that allows doctors to communicate electronically with other physicians regarding the care of their patients directly from their electronic medical record (EMR) systems.
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TORONTO – North York General Hospital (NYGH) and Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) are creating a Joint Chief Information Officer (CIO) role to leverage the combined expertise, experience and purchasing power between the two organizations.
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HALIFAX – The IWK Health Centre has announced that Cineplex, in partnership with the hospital and the IWK Foundation, will be transforming the O.E. Smith Auditorium into a new theatre where patients and their families can watch movies and other entertainment.
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OAKVILLE, Ont. – Siemens Healthineers announced the company is expanding its informatics capabilities for point-of-care testing with the acquisition of Conworx Technology GmbH, a Berlin-based developer of point-of-care device interfaces and data management solutions.
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TORONTO – Orion Health announced that Mackenzie Health, based in Richmond Hill, Ont., has selected the company’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to better connect existing solutions and to build interfaces to new systems in an efficient and timely manner.
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KITCHENER, Ont. – An Ontario-based consortium of Think Research, CognisantMD, and the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) has been chosen to lead the design and deployment of a ground-breaking electronic referral (eReferral) platform for the Waterloo Wellington community.
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RICHMOND HILL, Ont. – Mackenzie Health is expanding its innovation strategy by partnering with Sodexo Canada to develop IT systems that manage service fulfillment tasks. The organizations will devise, test and evaluate technological solutions for call-centre operations, environmental services, patient transport, bio med and physical plant maintenance, central equipment distribution, security and patient food services.
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CTRL +E is Dr. Tunji Fatoye’s favourite computer shortcut these days. As unit director at Winnipeg’s Kildonan Medical Centre, he uses it when he’s seeing a patient for the first time and wants to know what drugs were prescribed previously. He uses it to check lab results, including diagnostic imaging services, urine and blood cultures, and smear tests. As of July 2016, he even uses it to learn about his patients’ recent hospital visits.
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