Maintaining the healthcare system is hard work: My decision to the deep dive into Canada’s most complicated system

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Contributed by Janet Song OntarioMD is excited to partner with the Quality Improvement Practical Experience Program (QIPEP) at Queen’s University. Our two organizations share a passion for quality improvement in health care and a commitment to developing future health care leaders. QIPEP aligns…

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OntarioMD’s EMR Quality Dashboard and the Important Role of Data Quality

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At OntarioMD, we talk frequently about how we add value to the health care system by helping physicians and stakeholder partners realize digital health’s tremendous potential to improve efficiency, reduce wait times, and improve population health management and patient outcomes. That’s a key focus of our 2017-2020 Strategic Plan, and is interwoven in…

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What Digital Health Means to Primary Care

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What do you think of when you hear the words digital health? Is it the latest medical health tracker app? Your electronic medical record? Robot doctors?   Digital health includes all these tools, and many more. But the true essence of digital health – and the reason why it’s worth…

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Digital Health Shift – EMR Quality Dashboard and Quality Improvement

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This Digital Health Shift vlog is the second in a video series of OntarioMD Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Darren Larsen discussing the EMR Quality Dashboard. This segment focuses on how the EMR Quality Dashboard delivers Quality Improvement to patient care. https://vimeo.com/275700431

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Darren Larsen on the State of Digital Health in Canada

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This post was originally published April 29th, 2018 on RDP Associates Dr. Darren Larsen is Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at OntarioMD. As CMIO, Darren provides clinical advice to many provincial and national steering committees and clinician advisory groups and has been instrumental…

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Physicians Own the Value of the Data Within Their EMRs

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Submitted by OntarioMD Dr. Adam Stewart  This blog post was originally published on April 22, 2018, on Dr. Adam Stewart's website at www.stewartmedicine.com.     Information and data have value in every industry. The value of data in health care is only beginning to…

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