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Friday, September 10, 2010
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Volume 20, Number 3 - October, 2006
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Steven A. Huesing – Editor/Publisher
Denis Protti - Professor, Health Informatics, University of Victoria, BC
Coen Smit, MD - Primary Care Physician, Gemert, The Netherlands
The authors describe the background of the Dutch healthcare system and the environment that has led to 97% of Dutch GPs using computer-based GP information systems. The GPs use their information system to record clinical notes during their consultation with Patients – a utilization rate which is similar to those being achieved in Denmark and Norway.
Baha Habashy - Partner, Integrity+ Consulting, Toronto, ON
Do leaders hide behind committees to avoid the responsibility of making decisions? Do committees consume too much of your time while adding little value? Mr. Habashy discusses a topical framework and a process whereby Committees can play a useful and effective role.
William Pascal - Chief technology Officer, Canadian Medical Association, Ottawa ON
Policymakers are starting to acknowledge that until individual physicians have electronic medical records in their offices, there can be no effective national EHR system. Mr. Pascal offers his prescription to promote a healthier environment for physicians to make the decision to automate their clinics.
Shelagh Maloney – President COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association, Alliance Executive, Ontario, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, ON
As a health informatics community our goal is to build a high quality, sustainable health system. Much of our work to date has been focused on building the foundational pieces that will get us to our goal. While the networks, the data standards and the client/provider registries are not the ‘killer apps’, they are critical to achieving the promises of e-health. Similarly, COACH and the health informatics community, must build a consistent, robust infrastructure to support the transformational change that we are undertaking. In her first Column, Ms. Maloney outlines the organizational changes that will strengthen COACH’s organizational capacity and ensure that COACH will have the infrastructure that will evolve as we evolve.
David Ulis, MPH - Managing Director of Courtyard Group, Henley-on-Thames, UK
Mr. Ulis reports on the highlights of the Harrogate Conference, the major health informatics event of the year in the UK sponsored by the British Computer Society (BCS)
Dennis Niebergal, President & CEO, CLINICARE Corporation, Secretary, CHITTA, Chair of CHITTA’s national Physician Office System Committee
Mr. Niebergal offers his high-level perspective of the status quo of physician EMRs in Canada. He provides some convincing arguments to support a certification and conformance process for providers of EMR software for Canadian Physicians.
H. Dominic Covvey - Professor, NSERC/Agfa Executive Industrial Research Chair in Health Informatics, Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research, University of Waterloo
Kelly Abrams - Director of Education & Professional Practice, Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA), Regina, SK
The authors discuss the potential of the convergence of the curricula of Health Information Management and the Health Informatics professionals and its impact on the eHealth capacity crisis.
Jay G. Mercer, MD, CCFP - Medical Director of Practice Solutions Web Services
Dr. Mercer discusses how Family physicians can use the internet as a useful and inexpensive way to communicate with their patients.
Derrick Leung, MBA, PMP - HL7 Certified specialist with the Courtyard Group, Toronto ON
If our vision of EHR is truly on target then why are over 50% of our healthcare IT projects still running over budget - some on a seemingly never-ending path? Mr. Leung believes that key drivers for extending the life of these projects are related to workflow issues that were never truly solved in the past; instead, temporary workarounds became permanent solutions. As a result, he proposes that when we plan to implement new technology, it would be prudent to step back and revisit these problems.
Michael Martineau - Director, Branham Group Inc, Ottawa, ON
Michael reflects on the emergence of what many people are calling Web 2.0, a transition to services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability and its impact on Healthcare.
2005 Health Informatics Awards Recipients
McKesson Canada
CLINICARE Corporation
Elaine Sawatsky
Elizabeth Borycki
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