Boosting Canada’s EMR Backbone

Federal Budget Boosts Canada’s EMR Backbone
The 2009 Federal Budget and its focus on economic stimulus will provide some collateral support for improving the health of Canadians by accelerating implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs) across the country. The federal investment of $500 million to Canada Health Infoway to encourage greater use of electronic health records [...]

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Electronic Medical Records – EMR: Glue for a piecemeal system

The Benefits Are Many
When Karen Madill rushed to her hospital emergency room a couple of weeks ago, she forgot her list of prescriptions — an important oversight given that she has multiple health problems and takes about 30 different medications.
A couple of years ago, says the resident of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., she would have [...]

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Canada’s Health Care System and Electronic Health Records – EHR’s

Canada’s health care system contains almost 400,000 general practitioners, more than 700 hospitals and 1,600 long-term care facilities. In Canada, there are 2,000 health care transactions every minute.
Financial statistics
Canada’s public health care sector is worth more than $150 billion per year. As an enterprise, it would rank number 10 on the Fortune 500. The total [...]

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Trillium Health Centre’s Health Information Access Layer

Trillium staff display the Showcase Ontario Merit Award presented to Trillium Health Centre for its Health Information Access Layer project.
Integrating and sharing information among care providers and patients is a big challenge for the health-care system. The situation is further complicated by the multiple formats and systems – both paper and electronic – providers [...]

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Canadian Government Supports Electronic Health System: Will Save Time & Lives

OTTAWA, Feb.12, 2009 – The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced that the Government of Canada, through its Economic Action Plan, is continuing to support the creation of health information systems designed to benefit Canadians by saving time and lives, while also creating economic stimulus.
Support from Budget 2009 will assist Canada Health Infoway in [...]

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Electronic Medical Records Would Help Canadian Cancer Patients

Access to electronic health records would help cancer patients: report
TORONTO – Many Canadians with cancer have yet to benefit from advances in electronic information technology that could improve how their disease is treated and managed, the Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada says in its annual report card.
The Report Card on Cancer in Canada, released [...]

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High Tech Sensors Help Seniors Live Independently

Eva Olweean talks about the sensors in her room that helped diagnose a potential congestive heart failure at the Tiger Place nursing home Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, in Columbia, Mo. Tiny sensors hover unobtrusively over the toilet, shower and doorways to detect Olweean’s movements inside her apartment. Pneumatic tubes tucked in the mattress and beneath [...]

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Medical Records Management

You may know that some of the most important things that you need are your medical records. This can be a bit scary because these are not something that most have with them. Instead, they rely on the doctors and nurses to get them from their family doctor if there is ever an emergency, and [...]

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Consumer Control Over Personal Medical Data Is Comming To Canada

Technology that claims to put consumers instead of institutions in control of their own healthcare information is coming. But with it comes new privacy and security worries.
Beta versions of Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault – both examples of new personal health record (PHR) technology – were launched last year. These free software products allow consumers [...]

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Doctors Worried About Privacy of Albertans Medical Records

CBC News
Alberta doctors say a bill currently before the legislature will put the privacy of their patients’ medical records in jeopardy. Bill 52 would force doctors to give all their patient files to the new provincial electronic health record system.
Dr. Chip Doig, the president-elect of the Alberta Medical Association, said Wednesday that too many [...]

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