https://vimeo.com/257142099 Contributed by Sarah Hutchison On January 24, OntarioMD had the honour of welcoming Norway’s Ambassador to Canada, Her Excellency, Mrs. Anne Kari Hansen Ovind, and the Minister of Health and Care Services, Mr. Bent Høie and his delegation, to our office. The…
Contributed by Michael Savage When I joined the OntarioMD team in June 2017, I was excited to be part of an organization that has both a start-up vibe and a true commitment to building a more seamless and connected Ontario health care system.…
Dr. Darren Larsen, CMIO of OntarioMD, discusses the contributions of OntarioMD to digital health in our latest vlog entry as part of Digital Health Week. https://vimeo.com/242802932
This week (Nov. 13 to 19) is Digital Health Week. OntarioMD is proud to support this initiative celebrating the important work being done in digital health, and to sponsor the Infoway Partnership Conference in Calgary on November 14 and 15, which will feature…
Contributed by Marsha Foster, OntarioMD Practice Enhancement Consultant Does this sound familiar? Your clinic has had an electronic medical record (EMR) for some time now. Things seem to be running OK… but maybe you expected everything to be a little easier by…
This post was contributed by Dr. Kevin Samson. OntarioMD’s EMR: Every Step Conference in Toronto on September 28, 2017 will feature 25 seminars designed to inspire and educate clinicians on how to get more benefits from their EMR. In the coming weeks, we’ll…
This post was contributed by Dr. Adam Stewart. The original entry can be found on his blog at https://www.stewartmedicine.com/blog/emr-is-not-the-problem These days, it seems there is an anti-EMR proclamation to match every anti-vaccination decree. As the old adage goes, “You can lead a horse…
This blog post was contributed by Summer Intern, IT Deployment and Integration Graeme Larsen. "Digital Health" is a complicated idea. To the uninitiated, the phrase could mean all manner of things, from robots performing surgery, to artificial intelligence solving diagnostic problems, to information…
This post was contributed by Dr. Mario Elia. The original entry can be found on his blog at https://drmarioelia.wordpress.com Back in December 2016, I was doing some work around proton pump inhibitor (PPI) costs in Ontario and did some digging into my EMR data…
This post was originally published in Quorum on August 17th, 2017. According to a recent study, poison control centres in the US receive a call about medication errors every 13 seconds, and that rate has doubled in the past 12 years (1). Doctors,…