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William Pascal, Guest Editor – Chief Technology Officer, Canadian Medical Association, Ottawa, ON
Anne Lawrence - Business Manager, eHealth Solutions Division, Smart Systems for Health Agency; with Danny Faria, Communications Manager for the Agency
The authors discuss the key role that SSHA’s ONE Network plays in providing a connectivity solution for Ontario hospitals potentially as a foundation for the development of e-Health in Ontario
H. Dominic Covvey - Professor, NSERC/Agfa Executive Industrial Research Chair in Health Informatics, Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research, Waterloo, ON
The Ontario Hospitals eHealth Council (HeHC) is charged with addressing the role of the hospital in the realization of the benefits of eHealth and particularly of the EHR. The HeHC realized that the “readiness” of hospitals to both serve as feeders of information to the EHR and to access and utilize the information in the EHR was critical. The Council decided to actually measure this readiness through a survey of Ontario hospitals; Professor Covvey discusses the results of this survey and the implications of the results.
Michael Whitt – Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais, Calgary, AB
In this second part of a two-part series, the author introduces some legal theories with respect to regulatory schemes and then poses and answers some frequently asked questions. Part I of this series was published in Volume 19, number 4, December 2005.
John Breakey, Technology Editor – Co-founder & CEO, UNIS LUMIN, Oakville, ON
Mr. Breakey discusses RFID (radio-frequency identification) as a viable solution to reduce the disappearance of medical equipment and devices from hospitals – a problem characterized by significant costs, lost time and long patient/staff wait times
Don Newsham, President COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association
Canadian Health Practice Lead, Sierra Systems Group, Calgary, AB.
Mr. Newsham discusses COACH’s strategic goal to “enhance the practice of health informatics as a profession”, and under that goal, to “establish minimum standards of professional practice for Health Informatics”.
Bill Haver, MD, Medical Editor, Managing Partner, Lakeside Medical Clinic, Saskatoon, SK
Why is physician adoption of the EMR so slow? Dr. Haver poses some interesting perspectives on the relationship between our healthcare system and physician “buy-in” of the underling challenges and opportunities of provincial EHR’s.
Joanne Walker, Principal; Shannon Malovec, Senior Analyst, Courtyard Group, Toronto, ON
Most Canadian provinces have made the commitment to publicly provide information on wait times for surgical and diagnostic imaging services. The authors discuss some of the strategic processes that have been used in a variety of settings to enable the beginnings of success.
Michael Martineau, Director, Branham Group Inc., Ottawa
In this first of what is hoped to be a “regular” column, Michael takes some light-hearted shots at those of us who are techno-junkies.
WebMed Technology Inc.
Nancy Gabor
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