Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre launched an innovative new on-line tool today that will allow the public to monitor the hospital’s performance in achieving its goals and objectives. full story
CIHI announced that the two annual reports, “Full-Time Equivalent Physicians Report, Canada” and “Average Payment per Physician Report”, Canada have been combined into one report beginning with the data year 2005-2006: Physicians in Canada: Average Gross Fee-For-Service Payments. See: Physicians in Canada: Average Gross Fee-For-Service Payments.
Newfoundland and Labrador make Their PACS Deadline: According to a news release from Canada Health Infoway, Newfoundland and Labrador has achieved the goal of having more than 95 per cent of diagnostic images available digitally throughout the province to authorized health care providers, making it the second province in Canada to implement such a province-wide system. The project expanded diagnostic imaging to all regional health authorities and created a provincial archive for images and reports for X-rays, MRIs, Ultrasounds and CT scans. The Centre for Health Information managed the development and implementation of the project on behalf of the province and the regional health authorities.
Agfa HealthCare announced that The Credit Valley Hospital, William Osler Health Centre, and Halton Healthcare Services in Mississauga, Ontario are sharing patient data through a Web-based electronic healthcare record (EHR) viewer, ensuring all three sites can securely share all patient records, regardless of legacy IT systems or vendors. Deployed in just over 90 days, the IMPAX Clinical Dashboard™ at Credit Valley Hospital extends vendor-neutral, enterprise-wide IT system interoperability between the three disparate hospitals.
According to a news release from EMIS Inc. the company has successfully completed negotiations with British Columbia’s Ministry of Health on behalf of the Province to participate in the Physician Information Technology Office (PITO) project. Under this agreement, physicians in BC will be provided funding via the Ministry of Health to support the implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR) provided the EMR selected by the physician is from a limited list of approved solutions, including EMIS Inc’s Patient Care System (PCS). All of the vendors participating in the PITO program now have to demonstrate compliance with a set of functional and technical requirements before implementing their PITO-funded solution. EMIS Inc. is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.
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