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Security tips for EMR

dsoul — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:34:20 -0700

In Technology For Doctors Issie Rabinovitch passes on common sense suggestions to improve security on EMR systems:
http://www.canhealth.com/doctors.html#D06octstory2

EMR: Exam room configuration

dsoul — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:35:17 -0700

In CanadianEMR there is a whole section devoted to disussion Exam Room configurations and set up of the equipment for ...

Eighth Annual Survey of Electronic Health Trends and Usage (2006)

dsoul — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:41:28 -0700

Available from the Medical Records Institute (pdf) is their latest annual survey of EHR Trends and Usage which reveals insights ...

Expiration of Alberta POSP funding - what will it mean?

dsoul — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:00:29 -0700

Alan Brookstone has posted an interesting piece in CanadianEMR where he discusses the exipration of the Alberta Physician Office System ...

Electronic health records in Canada

dsoul — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:34:17 -0700

Despite a massive program sponsored by the federal and provincial government (Canada Health Infoway; 6 years; $1.1 billlion) less than 20% of Canadian GP's are actually using electonic IT systems for clinical care.

PITO FAQ Update

dsoul — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:28:36 -0700

The BC Ministry of Health has posted an update to their PITO Frequently Asked Question page.
Items marked as "new" ...

Physician User Group leaders meet with PITO

dsoul — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:52:19 -0700

Leaders of the Vancouver Coastal Health Physician User Group met with representatives of the the Physician Information Technology Office (PITO) ...

Attachment problems complicate the transfer of information between EMRs

dsoul — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:40:18 -0700

Alan Brookstone posts on CanadianEMR an article about a complex problem evident in the UK as a result of the ...

Retention of Records when Transitioning to an EMR

dsoul — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:00:56 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone writes about the complex complex issues that arrive as we move to the EMR in physician ...

Report - Beyond Good Intentions Conference - Are we Getting Closer?

dsoul — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:48:37 -0700

Writing in CanadianEMR, Alan Brookstone reports on a conference in Montebello, Quebec sponsored by Canada Health Infoway and the Health Council of Canada and points to an interesting document arising from the session that reveals a number of insights relating to EHR implementation.

Dr. Brookstones piece can be found at:
canadianemr/2006/07/beyond_good_int.html

The document "Beyond Good Intentions: Accelerating the Electronic Health Record in Canada" can be found at:
healthcouncilcanada.ca/docs/papers/2006/infoway.pdf

Remote Access to your EMR

dsoul — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:34:46 -0700

As Alan Brookstone notes in a posting on CanadianEMR,

"one of the great benefits of an EMR is the ability ...

BCMA: EMR commitment worries B.C. MDs

dsoul — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:09:22 -0700

In this article in The Medical Post, Matt Borsellino reports from the BCMA Annual Meeting that there is a groundswell ...

PITO Steering Committee announced

dsoul — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:12:22 -0700

Members of the Physician Information Technology Office Steering Committee have been announced.

BCMA Representatives
Dr. Michael Golbey Past President ...

The Search for the Holy Grail - 'Clinically Seductive Software'

dsoul — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:07:59 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone asks his readers:

"Have you used a clinically seductive EMR application or medical software tool? What ...

Frequently Asked Questions - Physician Information Technology Office (PITO)

dsoul — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:19:03 -0700

part of the newly negotiated agreement between the BCMA and the BC Government is a plan to coordinate the implementation ...

Physicians’ Use of Email With Patients: Factors Influencing Electronic Communication and Adherence to Best Practices

dsoul — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:57:44 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone reviews a study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on Physician's use of e-mail with patients.

eHealth Collaboratory aims to test and improve EMRs

dsoul — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:52:57 -0700

As a 'proof of concept' the eHealth Collaboratory announced that 10 vendors had worked together to create an interoperable, electronic health-record solution.

The eHealth Collaboratory is a joint initative of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation and Canada Health Infoway. According to this article in Canadian Healthcare Technology:

"not only is the Collaboratory assessing how EMR solutions conform to standards. It is also helping vendors and healthcare providers collaborate on solutions to an urgent problem in the e-Health sector - the inability of many systems to talk to each other."

The article is located at:
http://www.canhealth.com/News345.html

8 Lessons from Canada, Australia and England on EMR/EHR Implementation

dsoul — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:42:36 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone comments that:

"Canada is now being viewed as a leader in terms of establishing national leadership ...

Quebec to speed up development of EMRs

dsoul — Wed, 10 May 2006 12:27:52 -0700

Quebec has announced a $547 million plan to create a province-wide system of electronic medical records by the year 2011. ...

EMR and Liability Exposure

dsoul — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:34:08 -0700

A short but interesting thread in CanadianEMR tackles the topic

"If a physician has fully or partially implemented an EMR, ...

Learning from Abroad: Lessons and Questions on Personal Health Records for National Policy

dsoul — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:20:03 -0800

Alan Brookstone in CanadianEMR points to an paper from the US based AARP that compares and contrasts approaches taken in ...

Northern Health docs set the pace for EMR adoption

dsoul — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:56:08 -0800

Over 90 percent of doctors, in a mostly rural region bigger in area than France, are expected to be online ...

Local EMR vs. ASP based EMR. Which is the right EMR solution?

dsoul — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:44:21 -0800

An interesting discussion on CanadianEMR about the relative merits/drawbacks that the competing models of local EMR vs. and ASP based ...

Connections in Richmond, BC

dsoul — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:44:54 -0800

Pilot project currently under way to help determine the best way to provide "last mile connectivity" to primary care physicians and specialists

'Go Live' Without Going Nuts

dsoul — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:40:59 -0800

In this article in Physicians Practice, subtitled "Steps to a Successful EMR Implementation," Elaine Zablocki writes that

"... selecting and ...

WARNING - Silos of Information!

dsoul — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:58:51 -0800

Alan Brookstone writes: "It has always been my position that as much as possible, physicians who work collectively or geographically ..."

High Hopes Meet Harsh Reality

dsoul — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:48:32 -0800

In the CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone points to an interesting article in Managed Care Magazine outlining some of the challenges facing ...

The case for the 20 minute Case Study

dsoul — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:32:21 -0800

On CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone raises the question:

"what can you do when you evaluate an EMR one-on-one with a product ...

A tale of two provinces

dsoul — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:00:17 -0800

In Technology for Doctors, Joaquim P. Menzies notes that the resemblence between Ontario's ePhysician Program and Alberta's POSP ends with the simlarity of goals and a few components...

Portability of information between different EMR systems

dsoul — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:00:38 -0700

In CanadianEMR Alan Brookstone notes:

"One of the frequently recurring questions is that of portability of information between different EMR systems. Physicians have a concern that should they select a specific EMR system, they will be tied to that system and be unable to transfer that data to another system should the vendor go out of business or should they just want to move to a different system. The concern is well founded. Currently there is no approved data standard and accepted methodology for clinical information to be transferred between different systems."

A little bit of progress in this area of standardization would reap tremendous benefits far beyond reducing physicians fears of vendor lock-in -- a core message set would also be a much easier route to effective use of medical data than interoperability of systems would. But that's a story for another time... for the CanadianEMR discussion goto:
canadianemr/2004/10/portability_of_.html