Nova Scotia has released requests for proposals (RFPs) for two information technology projects for district health authorities to be carried out over the next year. The goal is to provide better access to care and cost savings from projects that improve how hospitals manage beds and schedule staff.
Since 2005, CEO Brian Forster has guided OntarioMD, which manages eHealth Ontario’s electronic medical record (EMR) adoption program. His philosophy: If you make it fully functional, doctors will come—but we're not there yet.
British Columbia scientists are now part of an international team compiling an enormous bank of resources for research into the functions of all known genes.
Canada Health Infoway is inviting Canadian innovators to join the ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge, which will run from September 2011 to March 2013 and offer financial awards to participants for achieving certain results.
Funding is now in place and work is underway on a $72-million plan to create a single electronic health record system across Toronto and the surrounding area.
Fifty years after MedicAlert came to Canada, the company has more than one million Canadian members and says it continues to innovate when it comes to the way medical information is stored and communicated.
