Tag Archives: healthcare

Cancer Care Ontario swaps Excel for SAS

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08 Jul 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

The provincial agency uses analytics to forecast who will need chemotherapy and where they will go for treatment – to better prepare for patient care. The SAS solution replaces a former manual process that pulled numbers from different data stores into an Excel workbook.

Canada embraces GS1 standards for barcoding drugs

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04 Feb 2010, ComputerWorld Canada

Now that 34 organizations across the county have agreed to adopt global GS1 barcoding standards, the Canadian Bar Code Project is one step closer towards reducing medication errors and streamlining the pharmaceutical process by automating the identification of all commercial drugs on the Canadian market.

Canadian health care is almost filmless

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10 Sep 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

eHealth adoption may be a slow process, but efforts to digitize radiology departments at hospitals across Canada are nearly complete. Agfa HealthCare replaced film at 51 sites across the RUIS of Université Laval region after being selected as the preferred PACS vendor for the Quebec Government. Find out what the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec thinks about the deployment.

eHealth Ontario appoints interim CEO

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04 Aug 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Step 1 is getting a ‘crash course in eHeath the organization,’ says Robert Devitt, president and CEO of eHealth Ontario for the next four months. Carmi Levy says Devitt is ‘the right person at the right time for the right role,’ so the question is: why only four months?

Five reasons your family doctor isn’t using EMR

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24 Jun 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

A GP and the CEO of OntarioMD weigh in on the roadblocks to electronic medical records for family physicians in Ontario.

GE launches $6-billion health care strategy

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10 May 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Canada Health Infoway and eHealth Ontario are among the Canadian partners. Medical professionals give some advice on priorities.

Cash crunch, cultural resistance “curbing” e-health progress

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13 Apr 2009,  ITBusiness.ca

Cultural resistance – not the least from healthcare workers – and a huge shortfall of public funds continue to be major obstacles to the widespread adoption of e-health programs in North America. Newt Gingrich, Frank McKenna and Peter Reuschel discuss economic stimulus programs in a roundtable discussion hosted by eHealth technology provider InterComponentWare.