The cash-strapped provincial government wants to cash in on the patient data collected by eHealth Ontario without compromising privacy or privatizing record-keeping. The cash-strapped provincial government wants to cash in on the patient data collected by eHealth Ontario without compromising privacy or privatizing record-keeping. With the controversial electronic health agency’sRead More →
A Fredericton doctor says the province’s new electronic medical records system has created an uneven playing field. Dr. Doug Varty was one of about 60 doctors who adopted electronic records before the new system was introduced. He says he is out tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hoursRead More →
The Liberal government has quietly scrapped a mandatory review of a new health bureaucracy. Premier Dalton McGuinty says the legislative review, which was to have taken place by the end of March, was dropped because Ontario’s 14 Local Health Integration Networks (or LHINs) are not yet fully operational. The LHINsRead More →
By Anne-Marie Tobin (CP) – Mar 24, 2010 TORONTO — As Donna Hammill-Chalk undergoes treatment for breast cancer, she can log onto the website at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, type in a username and secure password, and gain access to her medical records. In Prince Edward Island, her mother,Read More →