Despite spending $1.576B since 2001 only 17% of Canadians using Electronic Health Records – EHR’s

The effort to move Canadian medical records from paper to computer has been slow, and after eight years, the country is just a third of the way to its goal of having 50 per cent of those records available electronically by the end of 2010.
Canada Health Infoway, the non-profit organization charged with accelerating access to [...]

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E-health: the new frontier of medicine latest functions; Everything from twittering to electronic medical records

Surgeons are now sending “tweets” from the operating room.
That would be a slice-by-slice and stitch-by-stitch description, in 140 characters or less, new to the growing phenomenon of Web-based social media. Electronic medical records, following patients via telemonitoring, wireless health info – welcome to the new face of medicine, experts at a Montreal conference on E-health [...]

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Primary care in Canada at a critical juncture

For the past decade every provincial and national report on health-services provision has called, in one way or another, for the reform and renewal of primary care–the care provided by front-line health professionals who are a patient’s first point of contact in the medical system.
Primary care is seen, correctly, as being the linchpin of our [...]

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New CMA online tool allows patients to manage their diabetes – The mydoctor.ca Health Portal enables physicians and patients to “discuss diabetes” online

MONTREAL, June 9 /CNW Telbec/ – Canadian Medical Association President Dr. Robert Ouellet today launched the first online diabetes tool specifically designed for use by family physicians with chronic disease patients. The mydoctor.ca Health Portal now allows patients to share important diabetes-related information – such as blood sugar, weight and exercise [...]

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Getting a doctor and an electronic medical record will strengthen health care system: Ontario’s doctors

Ontario’s doctors say a study released on June 6th by the Ontario Health Quality Council (OHQC) illustrates the need to remain vigilant in getting every Ontarian a family doctor and expanding access to Electronic Medical Records (EMRs).
“Every person in the province deserves to have access to [...]

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U.S.Army Program For Electronic Medical Records To Be Expanded

The Army’s program for electronic battlefield medical records is preparing to expand to cover sites in the United States. That step comes as the Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care
program, based at Fort Detrick, marks its 10th anniversary.
“It’s really just gone through its adolescence phase,” said Lt. Col. William Geesey, the program’s product manager. “That [...]

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Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management

Columbia Journalisim Review
Campaign Desk – Tudy Lieberman talked to Jonathan Oberlander, a health policy expert and professor of social medicine and health
policy & management at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, to help journalists report the health IT story.
Trudy Lieberman: What do we mean by health IT?
Jonathan Oberlander: It generally refers to the [...]

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The Dark Side of E-Health in Canada

Ontario’s McGuinty Government defends eHealth agency for spending millions on consultants
TORONTO – Spending $67 million over two years on consultants is part of the “expensive undertaking” tasked to a government agency that’s developing electronic health records in Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty said on Wednesday, May 13, 2009.
The Smart Systems for Health Agency – now part [...]

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No Cost SGMS Key 2 Life EMR Master Program Available To Hospitals and Doctors In Canada and United States

Administrators and doctors please take note, that as of this writing there are CPT/ICD9/10 codes that will pay you to use the SGMS Key 2 Life EMR in your hospital, office or clinic.
We will provide your hospital, practice or clinic with the Safe Guard Medi-Systems Key 2 Life EMR Master Program at no cost. In [...]

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The Benefits of Electronic Health Records – EHR’s

There are many cited benefits of having EHRs which have a positive impact on both the North American healthcare community at large and each individual patient. These benefits include:
1. Improved communication – between healthcare team members (ex. physicians, dieticians, pharmacies etc.) themselves, as well as between healthcare team members and patients
2. Patient empowerment – Patients [...]

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