May 2010 - Enterprise Insights

Given my perspective on the need for more bottom heatlh information integration initiatives, I was very interested to hear about a local integration project led by OntarioMD with funding from eHealth Ontario. Physicians at the Barrie and Community Family Health Team are now electronically receiving patient reports from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie. These reports are transferred directly into the family health team's EMR and include: - Medical reports including discharge, consult, oncology, and surgery - Diagnostic imaging reports (text only A key feature of the newly developed electronic Hospital Report Manager is that works with any EMR subsidized by Ontario's EMR Adoption Program and can be used by any Ontario hospital. EMR vendors need only develop a single interface to the Hospital Report Manager while each Hospital need only develop a single interface to the Hospital Report Manager. ...

A little over a month ago a post, written by Michael Martineau and Michael Power, was published on this blog (as well as Dot Indicia and ITWorldCanada) entitled “Dear McGill University Health Centre … About Your PHR”. Shortly after it appeared , the authors were contacted by Philippe Panzini, Chief Technology Officer at MEDICAL.MD EHR INC., the company which developed and operates unani. Mr. Panzini responded with the following letter and we think it merits publication – if only to indicate that the company does indeed take privacy and security very seriously. ...