Friday, May 04, 2012
Ottawa Hospital goes mobile with IBM middleware The hospital is using IBM process management tools to create a social patient care platform
Friday, April 27, 2012
Toronto hospital detects infection with analytics The Hospital for Sick Children is using real-time big data analytics to alert health care providers when infants get infections 
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Doctors call for increased use of IT A Toronto conference on health informatics hears experts tout the use of information technology to improve patient outcomes 
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
U.S. Institute of Health taps Canadian site for database The U.S. National Institute of Health has partnered with Canadian medical Q & A site, AskTheDoctor to use its data as the backbone for a new artificial intelligence project
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Huge expansion for Ontario telehealth network Deal with Vidyo will allow the Ontario Telemedicine Network to offer videoconferencing to thousands of health professionals from their offices to patients in their homes
Thursday, May 26, 2011
E-health raises issues of data management, privacy: panel While electronic health records means more lives will be saved with broad access to patients’ medical information, a panel of experts discuss the challenges brought on by going digital. Plus, Ontario Shores’ cloud journey
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Toronto firm starts health-focused social media contest B Sharp Technologies is offering a case reward for any hospital or health centre looking to kick start a social media communication project. Plus find out about the type of initiatives one Ottawa-based hospital hopes comes out of the program
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Manitoba off and running with e-health The province has officially announced the first phase of its new e-health record system, which gives doctors access to patient demographics, immunization and drug data. Plus, analysis from e-health blogger Michael Martineau
Monday, November 22, 2010
Telus personal health portal gets hospital’s support A major Toronto hospital will link its online personal data portal for patients to Telus' upcoming repository, giving support to the carriers' national service
Thursday, July 22, 2010
GS1 standards get big support from health sector With health care budgets being frozen, a new report shows Canadian hospitalsand suppliers support streamlining health care product and inventory management using one supply chain standard. Find out more about the report, plus insight from Toronto-based St. Michael’s Hospital and an Ottawa e-health consultant
Monday, April 26, 2010
In Conversation: Michael Martineau on eHealth Ontario VIDEO The e-health consultant and commentator gives ComputerWorld Canada editor Dave Webb his take on the new CEO of eHealth Ontario
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
New eHealth Ontario CEO wants to rebuild image Former Dundee Bank of Canada CEO and long-time consultant Greg Reed officially took over as the new head of eHealth Ontario on Tuesday. Find out how he plans to improve the organization’s public image, his strategies to engage IT partners, and his thoughts on a Chief Medical Officer position
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The state of e-health in Canada: IDC Canada Canada’s electronic medical record market remains fragmented and immature due to varying provincial requirements for functionality and procurement, according to a new IDC Canada study. The challenges facing EMR vendors in Canada
Friday, December 04, 2009
Canada’s e-health plans misguided, Microsoft says Microsoft’s global health care expert came to Toronto on Dec. 1 stressing the importance of IT in its ability to transform health care in Canada. Find out his advice for how provinces can successfully use technology to improve health care
Friday, November 20, 2009
Queen’s U students win Agfa e-health competition The second annual Agfa HealthCare eHealth Innovation Competition awarded first place to a mobile e-health tool for expectant mothers. Such innovation could help dispel the negativity of recent e-health scandals
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Industry engages health care The Information Technology Association of Canada has launched an ongoing “structured dialogue” between the Ontario government and IT industry, to bridge the gap between health care professionals and IT suppliers to better understand each other’s needs and capabilities.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Mastering metrics: Ontario's five-year strategy plan The Ontario government's IT infrastructure has changed dramatically over the past 10 years. Slated for implementation in April 2008, a new five-year strategy plan aims to pin down performance management with a set of solid metrics. Expect more standardized operating environments and more consolidation.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
The paradox of dual power The formation of Local Health Integration Networks (LHIN) in Ontario marks an important new chapter in the organization and delivery of health care in Canada's largest province. Although technology and the emergence of e-health are important drivers of this experiment in regionalization, governance will ultimately be the key determinant of success or failure.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Canadian docs need incentives, say Kiwi experts Canadian doctors should be enticed to adopt electronic health record systems through a combination of subsidies and results-based incentives similar to those employed in New Zealand, suggests a group of Kiwi experts on tour in Canada. EHR systems will be widely used only when physicians realize the benefits the technology offers.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Audit finds ailing agency all at sea A highly critical review of Ontario's e-health agency, Smart Systems for Health, will serve as its guide to becoming a best practices IT organization within a few years, says its chairman and acting CEO.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Audit finds ailing agency all at sea 'Smart Systems for Health struggles to deliver stakeholder value and has yet to achieve an acceptable level of maturity in its management and operations.'
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Patients to manage own diseases in Ontario Help is on the way -- via electronics -- for patient's who want to manage their chronic diseases all by themselves. The afflicted, as well as pharmacists, in Sault Ste Marie should soon be able to access relevant medical information through Group Health Centre's (GHC) electronic medical record (EMR).
Sunday, June 04, 2006
EHRs or bust for health care system, say experts The Ontario health care system needs electronic health records (EHRs). That was the key message from a panel of industry experts at a Direct Engagement Inc. health care roundtable held at Rogers Communications Inc. head offices on Thursday in downtown Toronto.
Monday, May 29, 2006
Vendor support call for e-health standards The first awareness program into standards development for Australia's EHR initiative has called for more vendor involvement into developing standards.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Nova Scotia PACS is an x-ray vision As far as x-ray technology goes Nova Scotia will soon be completely filmless, the second province to do so after Prince Edward Island, as a result of a province-wide digital imaging system.