A new partnership will benefit clients of the new Good Doctors Medical walk-in clinic that opened in Espanola last week. OntarioMD and the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) are partnering to streamline the delivery of digital health services. Read more at https://www.myespanolanow.com/16851/ontariomd-and-ontario-telemedicine-network-digital-delivery/Read More →
“For example, wouldn’t it make sense that anytime a patient has lab tests completed anywhere in the province that the results of these tests would be immediately sent to the records in each of their doctors’ offices?” Minister Eric Hoskins’ Bill 41 continues to be confounding for many physicians, butRead More →
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. —————————————- (RTTNews.com) – QHR Corp. (QHR.V), engaged in the healthcare informationRead More →
It looks like another #OntarioMD approved EMR vendor is no more. In a follow up to our article “Instability with #EMR in #Ontario“, yesterday OntarioMD updated their approved vendors to indicate the following. As of February 20, 2015 the Jonoke Software Corporation Inc’s EMR offering JonokeMed v5.5 is no longerRead More →
The RFQ was opened on November 6, 2014 and closed on December 3, 2014. The RFQ was posted on MERX, an electronic tendering service, and was open to all vendors (i.e., not limited to Canadian vendors). Five respondents successfully completed Stage 1 and have qualified to participate in the nextRead More →
Purchasing electronic health record (EHR) systems is a process in which potential buyers and users often seek and assess information about the products in question and compare alternatives. EHR is often a new technology to the people who use it, introducing new ways of performing clinical and administrative tasks. AsRead More →
Open-source is a wonderfully dangerous idea if this is how we intend to support it. #Heartbleed anyone? http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/02/email-encryption-software/Read More →
OntarioMD recently published a survey that shows that physicians in Ontario who are using EMRs are seeing improved patient care and are experiencing better office efficiency. OntarioMD, a subsidiary of the Ontario Medical Association, manages the Province’s EMR Adoption Program on behalf of eHealth Ontario, which oversees and funds theRead More →
Did we see this coming? Well the last 2 to 3 months have been interesting and a bit disconcerting, for medical professionals in Ontario. We now have 3 instances of uncertainty with technology, for those attempting to move forward with EMR in Ontario. Some of the issues could not haveRead 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 →