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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OTTAWA – Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) has selected Dapasoft’s Corolar to replace their current integration engine. The Dapasoft product will connect internal, regional, and provincial systems to the hospital’s primary Health Information System (HIS), Meditech 6.0.
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ETON, U.K. – InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has chosen the InterSystems HealthShare health informatics platform to access the Child Protection Information Sharing HSCIC service (CP-IS).
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CHICAGO – Solutions for interoperability are hot commodities these days, and the market for Vendor Neutral Archives, which can house and interchange all manner of healthcare information, is growing by leaps and bounds. It’s estimated that sales of VNAs are growing by double digits each year, compared with single digit growth for traditional Picture Archiving and Communication Systems.
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BRAMPTON, ONT. – Synapse, a system that enables healthcare professionals to easily communicate with each other via Facebook-like technology, is currently being used by about 1,000 physicians across Ontario, plus another 3,000 nurses, pharmacists and allied healthcare professionals.
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In March 2013, Niagara Health System’s (NHS) St. Catharines Site opened its doors, marking a major milestone in Ontario’s largest hospital integration.
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