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The Canadian province of British Columbia plans to introduce an electronic record-keeping system in the near future that will allow the sharing of patient data on a wide scale. And an expert report from Australia concludes that country’s patients would benefit from electronic data-sharing. A potential ergonomic benefit of systems that allow adequate sharing is faster and easier communications about every aspect of a patient’s care, a gain in efficiency that could result in fewer medical errors – described by some experts as one of The United States’ top ten leading causes of death.

Weiterlesen: Electronic Patient Data System Soon in Canada, Urged for Australia

Manitoba is taking its patients’ records online.

St. Boniface Hospital will be the first facility with electronic patient records allowing doctors and nurses and other health providers to get access to complete patient records through the computer.

The records will include test results, doctor’s notes and medications.

Weiterlesen: Canada: Manitoba: St. Boniface Hospital patients’ records

Computerization of medical system not moving quickly enough, Fell says

A senior Bay Street financier has quit the provincially appointed board of Toronto's local health authority in protest over the slow pace of computerization of the health-care system.

Tony Fell, chairman of RBC Capital Markets, sent in a stinging resignation letter to the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) on April 2.

Weiterlesen: Canada: Health-care VIP quits over delays

Technology has changed the way Canadians shop, bank, work, learn and even communicate with each other. It is also changing how health-care services are delivered.

Health care, at its core, is an innovative enterprise whether it’s new developments in the lab or improving patient care services, notes Jeff Doleweerd, the e-Health lead with the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integrated Network. One area it had fallen behind is technology, but that’s quickly changing.

Weiterlesen: Canada: It's called E-Health