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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Medical Records Management
Posted in EMR Services of Canada, SGMS Emergency Medical Records In Canada, tagged e-health, EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, emergency medical records, EMR, medical alert devise, medical ID, personal health records, PHR on February 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Consumer Control Over Personal Medical Data Is Comming To Canada
Posted in EMR Services of Canada, SGMS Emergency Medical Records In Canada, tagged e-health, EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, emergency medical records, EMR, medical alert devise, medical ID, personal health records, PHR on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Doctors Worried About Privacy of Albertans Medical Records
Posted in EMR Services of Canada, SGMS Emergency Medical Records In Canada, tagged e-health, EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, emergency medical records, EMR, medical alert, medical alert devise, medical ID, personal health records, PHR on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
EMR electronic medical records…Dying for Data
Posted in EMR Services of Canada, SGMS Emergency Medical Records In Canada, tagged e-health, EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, emergency medical records, EMR, medical alert devise, medical ID, personal health records, PHR on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
PATIENT BEWARE: Cheryl Conrad makes sure she always keeps a copy of husband Tom’s medical records on hand, after he experienced an excruciating delay in getting treated at a local hospital.
Cheryl Conrad seethed with frustration. It was now 8 hours since she had found her husband, Tom, passed out on the floor. Now, in the [...]
SGMS EMR in Canada
Posted in EMR Services of Canada, SGMS Emergency Medical Records In Canada, tagged e-health, EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, emergency medical records, EMR, medical alert, medical alert devise, medical ID, personal health records, PHR on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last year alone over 3 million medical mistakes occurred due to a lack of medical information regarding the patients medical history. In case of emergency an EMR could save your life.
EMR stands for emergency medical record, a small computer flash drive containing your vital medical information. It can be worn as a bracelet, necklace on [...]
EHR’s: Convenience of Technology & The Reality of Your Privacy
Posted in SGMS Emergency Medical Records In Canada, tagged EHR, electronic health records, electronic medical records, EMR, medical ID, personal health records, PHR on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Convenience of Technology and Reality of Privacy
Remarks for the Conference on Harnessing the Power of Information
St. John’s, Newfoundland
The metaphor at the heart of this conference – harnessing the power of information – is particularly apt. The potential for information contained in electronic health records to help patients, researchers, health care providers and governments very [...]
Paper Medical Records Utterly Irrational : Gingrich
Posted in SGMS Emergency Medical Records In Canada, tagged electronic medical records, EMR, medical ID on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hurricane Katrina has been the loudest wake-up call so far for the need for electronic health records (EHRs), according to some prominent policy figures. Floods from the storm erased the medical records of many people in the central Gulf Coast because they were written on paper and stored in boxes in hospitals and physicians’ offices.
Dr. [...]
