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Editorial – Personal Health – It’s your responsibility
Steven A. Huesing, Editor/Publisher

COACH Column - The Tipping Point
Shelagh Maloney, President, COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association, Executive Director, External Liaison for Canada Health Infoway
Consumers are increasingly taking an active role in their healthcare decisions. Ms. Maloney suggests that an educated decision based on careful consideration of options leads to greater perceived value of the ultimate service and greater commitment to maintaining it - simply put, a higher level of consumer engagement, and the technology that is enabling it.

CHITTA Column – On the Journey to Progress
David Wattling, Chair, CHITTA, the Healthcare Division of ITAC, Managing Partner, Courtyard Group, Toronto, Ontario
Mr. Wattling briefly discusses Advocacy, Membership Communication and Governance Review as three major introspective priorities for CHITTA. As demonstrated in the political platforms in the Ontario elections, the value of ICTs as a way to meet healthcare promises is well recognized and publicized as such. CHITTA continues to position itself as a leading force in to demonstrating what our industry can accomplish!

Saskatchewan Promotes Quality Chronic Disease Management Care
Barbara Kermode-Scott, free lance medical writer based in Calgary, Alberta
The Saskatchewan Chronic Disease Management Improvement Initiative is moving ahead with a large province-wide quality improvement initiative. The driving goal behind this initiative is to improve the care and health of individuals with coronary artery disease (CAD) and/or diabetes and to increase access to physician practices for Saskatchewan patients. Ms. Kermode-Scott interviews some of the key players in this successful initiative.

Handling the Truth
H. Dominic Covvey, Professor and Director of the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research, University of Waterloo
Professor Covvey poses the question “Should we, as we promote eHealth, make it clear that we believe it will improve things but we need to take steps to clarify our goals, make sure the effects of our projects are measurable, and measure them so we can at least show we achieved what we targeted?”

Improving E-Reporting—An Exercise in the Pursuit of Knowledge
Mark Fuller, Director of Architecture, Planning and Standards, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in Toronto.
Mr. Fuller elaborates on how and why CIHI is beginning to distill a new vision for e-reporting by establishing three formalized product bundles, featuring different levels of functionality and depths of access:

Electronic Signatures - Big Success for Capital Health
Jo Kucher, Senior Director of Regional Patient Information Services and Regional Library Services, Capital Health, Edmonton, AB
Capital Health’s plan to move to a true electronic medical record regional system included the implementation of an electronic signature solution; Ms. Kucher discusses the processes and the benefits.

Let’s Build Information Technology Solutions for a New Audience: The Patient
Kevin J. Leonard, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
David Wiljer, Chair, Canadian Committee for Patient Accessible EHRs
The authors discuss patients accessing their own personal health information electronically. While this has been talked about and predicted for some time, there has been very little successful implementation and impact to date; notwithstanding, the authors believe that this is a situation that is ready for change right now!

LAST WORDS – Call Me When You Have What I Want
Michael Martineau, Director, Branham Group Inc, Ottawa, ON
Martineau points out that while eHealth Leaders may be somewhat prescriptive in their definitions and perceptions of what a Personal Health Record is and how it should be used, in the final analysis that will be determined by the highly personal views and perspectives of the individual consumer.

CHITTA Corporate Citizenship Awards

• Multinational Corporations – Cerner Canada
• Major Canadian Company – Sierra Systems
• Small to Medium Enterprises – Procura
  

COACH President’s Award

• Roger Girard, VP and CIO, Niagara Health System

COACH - Steven Huesing Scholarship Award

• Katrina Hurley M.H.I. Student, Clinician Investigator Program, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons