Benzinga.com
“As Canada moves toward a more complete pan-Canadian health record, Orion Health, Inc., global leaders in Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) solutions, welcomes 30-year veteran Gary Folker as senior vice president of Orion Health Canada.”
Chronicle Herald Nova Scotia
“A new electronic registry aims to shed light on the health-care challenges faced by First Nations people in Cape Breton.”
CBC News
“Provincial governments are making significant progress on the promises made in 2004 to improve health care, but there’s still a lot of work to do, according to the Health Council of Canada.”
Information Week
“Primary care physicians like the idea that personal health records will make healthcare data more portable and open up communications channels with patients, but they still have plenty of questions about data security, workloads, and how PHRs might change their relationships with patients, a new study says…”
Information Week
“The U.S. health IT market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 24% during 2012 to 2014, according to a study from RNCOS, a global market research and information analysis company.”
Life as a Healthcare CIO Blog
For the past 3 years, Massachusetts has led the country in e-prescribing due to the combined efforts of our payers and our healthcare information exchange. I follow the evolution of e-prescribing with great interest.
Key findings in the Surescripts report include:
KevinMD.com
“With the explosion of social media, I am amazed at how many doctors I encounter who know little to nothing about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and the like. “I’m too busy.” “Who has time for that stuff?” “I wouldn’t have time for anything else.” “How can I possibly keep up?”
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The former Liberal health minister who oversaw the e-health system responds to an audit that found big problems with the system.
