by medicaltechont | Mar 5, 2017 | Technology
Shortly after our story ran, the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) released a report based on The Commonwealth Fund’s 2016 international survey that highlighted this continued issue. According to the survey, Canada maintained its position as the worst of all 11 countries surveyed when it came to access to specialists. Fifty-six percent of us are waiting longer than a month to see a specialist—well over the international average of 36 percent.
Read more at http://healthydebate.ca/2017/02/topic/wait-times-specialists
by medicaltechont | Feb 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Health care is now as close as the nearest online device.
Maple, billed as Canada’s “first 24/7 virtual doctor’s office,” was officially launched in Ontario earlier this week. The online platform connects patients to licensed physicians in minutes and allows them to consult with the doctor in real time.
“Maple is like the Uber for Canadian doctors and Canadian patients,” said Dr. Brett Belchetz, Maple CEO and an Ontario emergency room physician. “It’s a way for Canadian patients, with the touch of a button on a web-based application, to have the ability to be connected to a Canadian doctor with a matter of minutes for an online consultation that takes place via instant message video or audio chat, through which they can receive a full diagnosis, prescriptions if necessary, sick notes and full forms of care.”
Read more online at http://www.thesudburystar.com/2017/02/01/the-virtual-doctor-is-in
by medicaltechont | Oct 17, 2016 | OHIP Billing, Ontario, Privacy, private clinics
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Oct. 7, 2016) – This afternoon, the Wynne government has made public a formal invitation from the Health Minister to Ed Clark to “assess and validate the value these [health data, e-health records and related intellectual property and infrastructure] systems have created for Ontario and to recommend ways to take them to the next level”.
Read more at http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/coalition-warns-health-minister-privatization-ontarios-health-systems-patient-records-2164963.htm
by medicaltechont | Oct 15, 2016 | Google, Technology
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Jim Andrews is in a medical office wearing just a hospital gown, staring at his doctor of 11 years, who is staring back at him through the sleek, metallic lens of Google Glass.
As the doctor examines Andrews, a new kind of medical scribe is watching the examination, transcribing everything he sees. The scribe, named Rahul, is thousands of miles away in India, and he is viewing the office visit live through the pint-size, WiFi-connected camera attached to the doctor’s glasses.
“When was his last physical?” the doctor, Albert Chan, asks as he listens to Andrews’s breathing and checks his reflexes. Rahul’s nearly immediate answer pops up in a text bubble display in the right corner of the doctor’s field of vision. “June 3, 2014!”
Read more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/medical-scribes-track-doctors-examinations-from-thousands-of-miles-away/2016/09/27/2c269f54-7c23-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html
by medicaltechont | Oct 8, 2016 | eHealth, Privacy
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’s 10-year mandate expiring at the end of 2017, Queen’s Park is looking at what’s next for eHealth.
Health Minister Eric Hoskins on Friday asked Premier Kathleen Wynne’s privatization guru, Ed Clark, for help “in valuing public and private assets with respect to Ontario’s digital health strategy.”
“I would ask you to provide the government with a value assessment of Ontario’s digital health assets and all related intellectual property and infrastructure,” Hoskins wrote in an open letter to Clark.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2016/10/07/liberals-want-to-know-cash-value-of-ehealth.html
