A shared services committee, including council members and CAOs from Pictou County’s six municipalities, has been meeting every two to three months for the last year and a half and have talked to recreation directors from all the towns to see how they could work together.
“It came out of the mayors and wardens meetings,” says New Glasgow councillor Troy MacCulloch who chairs the committee. “The idea was to start looking at things that as a county we can start sharing.”
Read more: CA: Nova Scotia: Municipalities pondering shared services for rec departments
Selkirk's ER is now the first site in the Interlake to boast a new electronic health record system, known as eChart Manitoba. Provincial health minister Theresa Oswald announced the system in March.
According to the Interlake Regional Health Authority, eChart provides authorized healthcare providers with a consolidated view of their patient's information from a number of sources, including current prescriptions, immunizations histories, demographic information and lab results.
Read more: CA: Manitoba: New system for tracking patient information rolls out at Selkirk Hospital
Telehealth systems in Canada are redefining the medical landscape and putting patient care as a primary concern. A national study put on by Praxia Information Intelligence and Gartner shows stunning growth in Telehealth use in the country last year.
With more than 5,700 Telehealth systems in at least 1,175 communities across the country, Canada is a global leader in improving access to care by connecting patients and care providers in different, and frequently, remote locations via telecommunication technologies.
Read more: CA: New Brunswick: Telehealth services taking province's health care by storm
Canada Health Infoway launched the study to gauge the use of telehealth technology and the benefits achieved to date. The study included data from sources including the 2010 Pan-Canadian Telehealth Survey and data from Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) on telehealth utilization and descriptions of services. It was conducted by Praxia Information Intelligence and Gartner.
For the purposes of the study, telehealth was defined as the delivery of services by healthcare organizations using health information and communications technology when the clinician and patient are not in the same location.
A new study released this week shows that telehealth in Canada has grown by more than 35 per cent annually over the past five years. According to Canada Health Infoway -- the government-funded organization that invests with provinces in telehealth initiatives -- the country now has more than 5,700 telehealth systems in at least 1,175 communities across the country.
While many people think of dial-a-nurse systems when they think of telehealth, the term actually refers to a whole spectrum of services and includes all kinds of telephone and Web-based technologies for delivering health services.
Read more: CA: Use of telehealth programs growing, report finds