by medicaltechont | Jun 13, 2015 | OntarioMD
Previously we mentioned that Jonoke was no longer listed as a certified OntarioMD vendor. It seems that there was a bit more to their story. As recently reported, their assets have been purchased by QHR in another EMR acquisition.
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(RTTNews.com) – QHR Corp. (QHR.V), engaged in the healthcare information technology sector, said its wholly owned subsidiary QHR Technologies Inc. has entered into a binding agreement to purchase all of the healthcare assets of Jonoke Software Development Inc., including its proprietary Electronic Medical Record or EMR software and its clients.
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We are now down to 9 vendors in Ontario, under the current certification offerings (not including Bell who will no longer offer an EMR after December 2015). If you are looking for information on the remaining offerings
click here. Hopefully more companies will get on board, giving medical professionals more choice in Ontario.
by medicaltechont | Mar 14, 2015 | Healthcare
One-third of Ontario employees receive no medical and dental benefits through their workplace, with low-income workers and women most likely to be excluded, according to a report to be released Tuesday.
The study by the Wellesley Institute, a Toronto-based health policy think-tank, shows that the vast majority of those in precarious or low-wage jobs do not have employer-provided health plans. The report notes that those workers are not often eligible for government-funded benefits either, leaving a significant gap in health coverage.
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http://www.insidebrockville.com/news-story/5341196-one-in-three-ontario-workers-lack-medical-dental-benefits/
by medicaltechont | Mar 8, 2015 | Canada, United States
Technology entrepreneur Jonathan Bush says he was recently watching a patient move from a hospital to a nursing home. The patient’s information was in an electronic medical record, or EMR. And getting the patient’s records from the hospital to the nursing home, Bush says, wasn’t exactly drag and drop.
“These two guys then type — I kid you not — the printout from the brand new EMR into their EMR, so that their fax server can fax it to the bloody nursing home,” Bush says.
In an era when most industries easily share big, complicated, digital files, health care still leans hard on paper printouts and fax machines. The American taxpayer has funded the installation of electronic records systems in hospitals and doctors’ offices — to the tune of $30 billion since 2009. While those systems are supposed to make health care better and more efficient, most of them can’t talk to each other.
Bush lays a lot of blame for that at the feet of this federal financing.
“I called it the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ bill,” he says. “It gave $30 billion to buy the very pre-internet systems that all of the doctors and hospitals had already looked at and rejected,” he says. “And the vendors of those systems were about to die. And then they got put on life support by this bill that pays you billions of dollars, and didn’t get you any coordination of information!”
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by medicaltechont | Mar 7, 2015 | Technology
1. A resident of Ontario must have a health card to show that he or she is entitled to health care services paid for by OHIP.
2. The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care pays for a wide range of services, however, it does not pay for services that are not medically necessary, such as cosmetic surgery.
3. To apply for OHIP coverage, you must go in person to a ServiceOntario centre.
4. Most of your Ontario health benefits are covered across Canada. The province or territory you are visiting will usually bill the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care directly for hospital and physician services. In Quebec, you may have to pay for physician services and then submit your receipt to your local ministry office for payment.
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