CANADA’S MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR eHEALTH CONUNDRUM:
A series of articles investigating why Canada lags the world in building a public health infostructure.
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research’s new global health research guru wants Ottawa to put antimicrobial resistance on its list of foreign-aid research priorities. 2016-cmaj-nov-28-2016-should-canada-focus-on-antimicrobial-resistance
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Ontario data specialists are dusting off reams of disparate and disconnected health data, integrating it with new sources of “big data” from genomics, and harnessing it all to help shape …
US President Barack Obama is frustrated with the work of contractors, including Canada’s largest technology company, and the sustained problems with the website at the centre of his hard-fought Affordable …
The decades-long push to bring Canadian health care into the information age has focused on connecting hospitals and clinicians and building giant data repositories. But according to experts at a …
Digital health pioneer Dr. Eric Topol was the most influential physician executive in the United States in 2012, according to a national poll by Modern Healthcare. Topol is a professor of …
The era of “big data” is dawning, with the convergence of electronic medical records (EMRs) systems, mobile health care monitors, genetic sequencing and predictive analytics. And with it, hopes are …
After the SARS disaster killed 44 people in Ontario in 2003, the federal government was advised by an expert panel to bolster a “system that will collect, analyze, and disseminate …
Canada’s e-health disconnect doesn’t stem from a lack of effort. Convinced that electronic connections between patients and clinicians will forge better, cheaper health care, the provincial and federal governments have …