Tim Wilson
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- 4/2/2012
Competition heats up in EMR space
The end of March saw a flurry of activity on the EMR front, with three vendors gaining Infoway certification, and there is also news on the persional health record (PHR) front. - 3/25/2012
Perhaps 'Dr. Watson' should try hospital administration
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has just come out with a study indicating that wait times for essential hospital procedures held steady in 2011. The numbers actually aren’t that bad, but it appears that the last few miles are hard to cover. One challenge is that the number of procedures is increasing. - 3/18/2012
Hospital research is good for the system
Last week, when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported on a study suggesting that Canadian hospitals may be getting better results for each dollar spent than their U.S. counterparts, the media had something of a heyday. - 3/11/2012
Research and innovation require many leaders
It's a curiosity of corporate culture that it promotes two social values that appear to be at odds with each other: teamwork and leadership. Not everyone can be a leader, yet leadership is promoted as a value we all should possess. At the same time, we're supposed to work collectively, which means we should know when to defer to others. - 3/4/2012
The fallacy of 'Privacy by Design'
A paper that was just released at the Toronto Board of Trade says that by embedding and implementing “Privacy by Design”, or PbD, into electronic health records, Canadians are set to have the best of both worlds: full access to health information while also having their privacy protected. - 2/26/2012
A signature solution
Whether fair or not, doctors have a reputation for having hard-to-read handwriting. One of the presumed benefits of electronic records is that pharmacists, nurses and other caregivers will no longer have to decipher a doctor’s illegible scrawl. The added benefit of a digital system would then be fewer mistakes. - 2/19/2012
Is the iPad ready for healthcare?
Device hitting the wall in the high-demand world of today’s health care. - 2/5/2012
Genetic records will pose a significant challenge
The federal government recently announced $67.5 million in joint funding for research into personalized medicine. This led to some confusion, as personalized means different things to different people: it could refer to personal health records, wellness programs or medical research focussed on individual genetics. - 1/29/2012
Without privacy, forget about efficiency
And, if we agree that electronic records are going to be the backbone of Canada’s healthcare system in the 21st century, then it is incumbent on all stakeholders to lead discussions of new technologies with an assurance that privacy concerns are front-of-mind. - 1/24/2012
Finding our way in the portal multiverse
When it comes to healthcare information portals, we already live in a multiverse, and it is expanding. That’s not necessarily bad news, but it does force us to ask ourselves how the multi-portal reality will be managed in the future.
