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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TORONTO – Starting this summer, the Ontario Long Term Care Association will be leading a project funded by Canada Health Infoway to provide Ontario long-term care homes with secure access to residents’ electronic medical information from provincial and regional data sources.
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EDMONTON – A family doctor and a team of technologists have created an online referral system that keeps patients in the loop when they are referred to specialists for care. The South Side Patient Care Network tested the system this spring and 35 medical clinics have since signed on.
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TORONTO – To improve care delivery and workflow, The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) has been integrating its OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) solution with its Meditech EHR.
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WINDSOR – ClinicalConnect, a system that enables authorized caregivers to view the electronic patient records held in disparate databases, including those of hospitals and medical clinics, will now be used by facilities in the Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network (LHIN).
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Intelligent building design can improve how a hospital operates in new and significant ways. The newly constructed Oakville hospital, one of a trio of sites managed by Halton Health Services (HHS) in Ontario, was designed with a mega-network – a central brain – that interconnects all systems: clinical, environmental, security, communications, and more.
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Once the groundwork was laid at London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London, migrating their core IT systems to the cloud was instantaneous. “It was like a NASA launch,” said Glen Kearns, integrated vice-president of diagnostic services and CIO at the two organizations. It literally occurred with the flick of a switch. “Dave was the maker of the switch.”
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that the U.S. Coast Guard is using the InterSystems HealthShare health informatics platform to enable strategic interoperability for its Integrated Health Information System (IHiS). For the first time, HealthShare makes it possible to view a comprehensive electronic health record across the Coast Guard’s disparate systems.
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