Canada’s move to digital health has yielded impressive gains, as evidenced by the impact in areas such as improved patient safety, a host of efficiencies for clinicians and the health system alike, delivering care closer to home and billions of dollars in efficiencies. As impressive...
In This Issue:
by Trevor Hodge
by Neil Gardner
Genome testing – using DNA analysis to determine genetic predisposition to various health conditions – still sounds like something out of a science fiction movie to many Canadians. But, the reality is that it’s available here, in North America, along with a constantly growing range of...
by Brendan Seaton
This month’s column is necessarily brief because I’m writing it in my hotel room in the old city of Cuzco, Peru. Other than preparing for a busy day viewing the ruins of the ancient Incan civilization and Spanish conquest, I could as easily be writing this in my home office in Toronto...
by Gavin Tong
It’s hard to open any industry magazine or conference program without seeing references to big data and personalized medicine. These hot topics have at least one thing in common: genetics. The ability to decode our unique genomes leads to copious amounts of data that can in turn be...
by David Wattling ...
The thesis for this article is that only when we achieve meaningful adoption of advanced ICTs in healthcare will we see the type of change that justifies the investment we have made, and indeed need to perpetuate.
We hear a lot of talk of driving change, or accelerating change....
by Elizabeth Keller
Trying to lead your team, group, branch, task force, executives or board in the midst of some formidable ocean swells of health informatics delivery, development or daily operations? Feeling overwhelmed and wondering how, where and when you can lead from your present deck?
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