Digital Health — Reports from Canada and around the world on healthcare’s digital growing pains
Vastly improved monitoring of addictive painkillers is needed to handle the scourge of inappropriate opioid prescribing, dispensing and use in Canada, experts say. But dithering and empire building by federal …
Critics say One of the architects of Canada’s ehealth strategy says it entirely missed the boat because of an excessive focus on developing massive centralized data systems rather than directly …
The federal government promised to give every Canadian an electronic health record. Eleven years and $2 billion later, we’re still waiting. Lives are hanging in the balance.
Canada should revisit its digital health strategy following recommendations that the UK’s very similar blueprint should be jettisoned as wasteful and flawed, experts say.
While several provinces have built centralized drug information systems that theoretically allow e-prescribing, there are few doctors in Canada who are electronically transmitting prescriptions to pharmacies.
Calling ehealth technologies “the new stethoscope,” Jennifer Zelmer, Infoway’s senior vice-president for clinical adoption and innovation, says a lack of physician training represents a substantial barrier in Canada’s efforts to …
Physicians should be compelled by law to use electronic medical records (EMRs), one of Canada’s leading health administrators says. Moreover, doctors should face stiff consequences if they fail to do …
The province of Ontario is contemplating the creation of electronic health records that could include a patient’s psychosocial, financial and legal history, a provincial official has indicated. Privacy and legal …
Grandiose nationwide digital health information systems aimed at aggregating patient data into general summaries may not be feasible, necessary or medically justified, according to a European Commission report. Large-scale systems …
While largely positive, the evaluation of the federal government’s $2.1-billion investment in the federal ehealth agency cautions that Infoway hasn’t yet adequately addressed the needs of patients and health care …