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EDITORIAL:
Steven A. Huesing, Editor/Publisher
Brendan Seaton, President, CareLink Incorporated, Fredericton, NB
"We live in a world of intricate global dependencies. Canadian life is impacted by world events, and we exert our own subtle influence on the rest of the world" ... Seaton expands on that thought in illustrating how COACH and its members interact with the international community.
Karen McCarthy, Manager, Communications, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ottawa. ON
Karen provides an overview of the highlights of the e-Health 2001 conference jointly sponsored by COACH, Canada's Health Informatics Association and CIHI, the Canadian Institute for Health Information in May in Toronto.
Harry Jones and Patricia Sullivan-Taylor, Principal Consultants, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Ottawa, Toronto, ON
Internet technology is re-shaping the traditional supply chain in hospitals. This article will look at new developments in the health care supply chain against the backdrop of historical and current models; and will show how an Internet-based, electronic supply chain can lead to significant savings for health care providers.
David Wattling, eHealth Editor, Chairman & CEO, iW Technologies, Inc., Toronto, ON
What does any of this have to do with eHealth? Aside from the stereotypical beer and hockey, most Canadians identify strongly with our social system, notably embodied in healthcare. We are the most wired country in the world. Put the two together and we can foresee a place on the world stage for a "Canadian built" eHealth industry. Why shouldn't we claim this space?
William J. Pascal, Director General, Office of Health and the Information Highway, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON
One of the goals of the Canada Health Infoway is to provide Canadians with "credible information that will be useful to them as citizens, as patients, as informal caregivers or simply as laypersons interested in making healthy choices about nutrition or lifestyles". Mr. Pascal reviews the varied aspects of achieving this goal.
Serge Taillon, CIHI Columnist, Director, Client Relations & Communications, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ottawa. ON
Mr. Taillon discusses CIHI's "Partnership for Health Information Standards", a merging point for key players from both the public and private sectors to discuss and promote standards for managing and exchanging health information. Based on the Partnership's record of success, he describes the challenges for the future under the leadership of Dr. Kathryn J. Hannah, the new Partnership Chair.
Expecting the Unexpected - the Birth of a Premature Infant: A Consumer Health Story
Sheryl Bennett-Wilson, Ottawa, ON
Mrs. Bennet-Wilson's story is highly personal, recalling her family's experiences with the birth of a premature baby. This experience led to the establishment of www.preemieinfant.ca. It’s a story about consumer health in action at the grass roots level.
John Breakey, Network Industry Columnist, President, UNIS LUMIN, Oakville, ON
Technology can seem like a race to get ahead of the investment curve. The pattern is buy the newest and fastest technology for the maximum life expectancy possible. From a technology perspective this seems logical but from an investment perspective it has a couple of shortcomings. Mr. Breakey suggests some alternatives that you can apply to reduce the real price of your investment in technology - the difference between the amount paid and the amount recovered upon disposal.
Brendan Seaton, Senior Editor, President, CareLink Incorporated, Toronto, ON
April 14, 2003 and January 1, 2004 -these are the dates that the privacy provisions of the US HIPAA and Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA - formerly Bill C6) come into full force. By 2004, Canada will face a bewildering array of privacy legislation and other influences that will create chaos in the management of health information. The impact will be on a scale that will exceed Y2K.
H. Dominic Covvey, Education Editor
President, Health IT Advisors Inc., Vancouver, BC
David Zitner, MD
Director, Medical Informatics, Dalhousie University Medical School, Halifax, NS
Health Informatics is a relatively new area, there a relatively few long-standing programs, and there are many views of what Health Informatics is and what constitutes a curriculum. The developers of Health Informatics programs face the challenge of determining the distribution of program content between undergraduate and graduate levels. This article attempts stimulate discussion about this issue.
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