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Editorial: Seize the Moment, or Forever Lament: A challenge to Canada's Health Informatics Community
Richard Alvarez, Guest Editor, CEO, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Toronto, ON
In the wake of the Romanow and Kirby reports and the February First Ministers' Accord, we have a window of opportunity to change the way business is done in the health system. Mr. Alvarez suggests that if we act now, we can move further than at any time in the past 20 years.
A Lasting Partnership
Steven A. Huesing - Editor/Publisher
On the eve of "e-Health 2003 - a catalyst for change", COACH President Gil Sampson and CIHI's Serge Taillon discuss the past, present and future of the longstanding collaborative partnership that the two organizations have enjoyed in the co-hosting of THE premier annual Canadian Healthcare ICT conference.
Saskatchewan Rural Hospital Pioneers Electronic Wireless Nurse Charting System
Barbara Kermode-Scott, Medical Writer and Communications Consultant, Calgary, AB
Ms. Kermode-Scott reports on the collaborative development a wireless nurse charting system at the Melfort Hospital - an electronic version of the Nursing Information System Saskatchewan (c) (NISS), the paper-based nursing care system used at 90% of the acute care and long term care facilities in Saskatchewan.
Health Infostructure Atlantic and the HIA Project - An Atlantic Canada Success Story
Brenda Ryan, Project Coordinator, HIA, Nova Scotia Department of Health, Halifax, NS
Ms. Ryan reports on the progress of the on Health Infostructure Atlantic, an on-time, on-budget collaborative project of Canada's Atlantic provinces embracing common client registries, case management and aspects of Telemedicine.
Learning from Teaching
H. Dominic Covvey, Education Editor, Professor, Faculty of Science, Agfa Research Chair in Health Informatics, University of Waterloo,Waterloo, ON
Prof. Covvey reflects on the value of objective review of prior experiences and how a brutal post-mortem evaluation can be a valuable lesson for future improvements.
Coping With Rapid Organizational Change? Turn to your Health Information System for the answers
Bill Garrett, Consulting Psychologist, Vancouver, BC
Vicky Paine-Mantha, Vice-President, Momentum Healthware, Inc., North Bay, ON
The rapid pace of major change results in senior operating officers being faced with managing the resources of healthcare organizations with which they are unfamiliar; the authors describe how your Health Information System (HIS) can be a major tool in successfully managing organizational change.
The Canada Health Infoway, Physicians and other Enigmas
Dr. Bill Haver, Medical Editor, Managing Partner, Lakeside Medical Clinic, Saskatoon, SK
While fully in support of Infoway's the mission, objectives and their philosophy of investment in public/ private collaborative projects, Dr. Haver in his usual direct style, voices his concern that the physician community is being ignored in this national endeavor.
G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre. . . Adopting a Health Information Reporting System
Andrew Komes, Staff Writer
Vancouver's G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre has implemented a system to collect and report on rehabilitation data. Meeting the requirements of the National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) set forth by CIHI, the complete integration of Rehab and Acute Care data is a centerpiece of the system.
Solving the Bandwidth Problem
John Breakey, Network Industry Columnist, President, UNIS LUMIN, Oakville, ON
Bandwidth starvation and the contention between applications leads to performance problems - Breakey discuses appliance and software-based solutions that control traffic flows, preventing retransmissions that waste bandwidth and in turn increasing the service level overall.
Why is Privacy such a hard sell?
Brendan Seaton, Senior Editor, President and CEO, PRIVA-C, Fredericton, NB
Seaton discusses the root causes of the privacy malaise in Canada: lack of awareness of the new privacy requirements, administrative paper-burden and a confused legislative and regulatory landscape. A problem with a solution - still a "hard sell"!
Minding Your Business: The New Privacy Protocol
John T. Sabo, Business Manager, Security, Privacy and Trust Initiatives, Computer Associates , Herndon, VA.
Mr. Sabo also serves as President of the International Security Trust & Privacy Alliance. He discusses the enormous impact of consumer privacy requirements due to increased data collection, consumer information processing, system networking and the Internet. If companies want to remain competitive, they must address privacy policy and implement business systems that take into account the cultural and jurisdictional concerns of consumers
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