Edmonton's open data plans and policies can set an example for other cities looking to bring more citizens into the "civic rink."
Edmonton, Alberta, is proudly referred to by its residents and admirers as the “City of Champions,” likely due to the Oilers’ hockey dominance between 1984 and 1990, when that storied team raised the Stanley Cup five times.
Weiterlesen: CA: Alberta: Edmonton: City of Open Data Champions (Contributed)
New technology that notifies the North East CCAC when a patient is admitted to hospital and notifies hospitals that a patient is receiving home care services is smoothing patient transitions and enhancing quality patient care.
Funded by eHealth Ontario, the new e-Notification initiative began rolling out across the northeast on January 29th. As of March 31st, the North East CCAC and 24 Northeastern Ontario Network (NEON) hospitals have been ‘turned on’ to this information-sharing project.
Weiterlesen: CA: Ontario: New technology helps patients with home care
IHealth, an electronic health record system, has been a decade in the making and will go online for the first time this June, building a central bank of patient information that health-care practitioners can eventually access at any Island Health facility.
Treasury Board President Tony Clement believes the Canada Revenue Agency should not have deleted any instant messages if they were related to government business, according to his spokeswoman.
“If the (messages) were of business value and deleted, then the rules were broken. If the CRA can prove that they were transitory in nature — if it was, ‘meet you at the coffee shop in five minutes’ — then that is considered not of business value, but that is up to the CRA to prove,” Stephanie Rea, his director of communications, said this week.
Weiterlesen: CA: Tax agency shouldn’t delete business-related instant messages, Tony Clement says
Telehealth equipment was purchased for the clinic by EHealth – the Ministry of Health’s technology services – as part of a trial case. Four other locations in the province also received the equipment to increase patient and provider uptake of virtual clinics in a new setting.
Weiterlesen: CA: Saskatchewan: Telehealth equipment makes an impact