The hospital’s plan to go paperless will help it line up it’s technology standards with eHealth Ontario initiatives, but it won’t get any financial help from the provincially-funded agency.
Though eHealth is in the business of helping health care providers communicate and share patient information electronically -- something the hospital recently announced it will spend more than $50 million to do -- it steers clear of hospitals. As the agency helps more physicians, labs and other health-related workers use technology better, it’s up to the hospital to keep up.
Weiterlesen: CA: eHealth Ontario not taking the lead to ramp up technology at hospital
But according to many experts at a conference on e-health in Ottawa, Ontario May 26–29, technological limitations stemming from mismanagement by government e-health agencies and commercial turf battles are preventing researchers and patients from realizing many of the rewards that the "big data" era could deliver.
“The biggest workforce in health care is patients,” argued Dr. Michael Evans, a family physician who runs the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. “Technology has to enable patient education.”
Weiterlesen: CA: Ontario: Patients want access to digital health information
The portal, which was built by the provincial government staff using open source software, serves as a central access point for high quality and machine readable raw data collected from various provincial government agencies.
“The portal is the next step we are taking down the open government road as we continue to build Alberta,” said Manmeet S. Bhullar, Minister of Service Alberta.
Weiterlesen: Canadian province Alberta develops open data portal with open source
During a keynote speech at the 2013 e-Health: Accelerating Change conference, the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced funding from the Harper Government to support research projects focused on developing innovative new electronic health (ehealth) technologies. These technologies will capitalize on advances in electronic patient records, internet technology and mobile devices.
"Our Government continues to invest in and promote health care innovation to improve the health of Canadians and increase the efficiency of the health care system," said Minister Aglukkaq. "These research projects aim to develop products that empower patients, assist health care providers, and enable better population health monitoring."
Weiterlesen: CA: Harper Government Invests in eHealth Innovation