by Sarah Hutchison, OntarioMD Chief Executive Officer The global pandemic has brought a new urgency and demand for digital transformation of health care in Canada and around the world. With more than 15 years as a trusted leader in clinical engagement and digital health solutions, OntarioMD is well positioned to…
Elizabeth Keller, VP Business Development & Stakeholder Relations, and Dr. Darren Larsen, former Chief Medical Officer of OntarioMD, along with OntarioMD patient partner, Sydney Graham, share their insights into health literacy at CANet’s first virtual Expert Knowledge Exchange (EKE). Learn more about improving health literacy…
By Aidan Lee Director, EMR Certification Program OntarioMD As the current pandemic has demonstrated, front-line health care workers go the extra mile to ensure the very best care for their patients, often in very trying circumstances. And at any time in a patient’s journey, physicians, nurse practitioners and others who work…
Dr. Daniel Pepe, OntarioMD Physician Peer Leader The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged us in so many ways. One major change we have seen within our own office is that seeing patients routinely for hypertension or diabetes has become less frequent than in the…
Written by OntarioMD Physician Peer Leader, Dr. Keith Thompson Jan 25th, 2020, my son and I are seated in Union Station waiting to return home and the CBC announced the first COVID-19 case in the GTA. We both watched the T.V. in the…
Written by: by Dr. Dustin Jacobson Gone are the days where patients had only one option for telemedicine services. Pre-Covid-19 patients were relying on telehealth and OTN visits; both options were infrequently used and often plagued with technical issues. Over the course of…
By Nancy Gunn, Senior Advisor, EMR Lab, OntarioMD; Reza Talebi, Manager, Practice Enhancement, OntarioMD; Melissa Coulson, Director, Program Design and Implementation, Cancer Screening, Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario); In follow up to the blog on Resuming Cancer Screening During COVID-19, we want to make sure it’s easy for you to identify higher-priority patients for cancer…
by Sarah Hutchison, Chief Executive Officer, OntarioMD https://videopress.com/v/WPLPn79i?preloadContent=metadata OntarioMD CEO, Sarah Hutchison with her thoughts on Digital Health Week For many of us in the industry, Digital Health Week is the time of year when we reflect on the impact of health technology. This year we are simply marveling at the rapid transformation of health care delivery that has…
By Aisha K. Lofters MD PhD CCFP Family Physician, Women’s College Hospital Family Practice Health Centre; Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; Chair in Implementation Science, Peter Gilgan Centre for Women’s Cancers, Women’s College Hospital Ontario’s health care system has been…
by Sarah Hutchison, Chief Executive Officer, OntarioMD OntarioMD’s first Digital Health and Virtual Care Day was a huge success, with more than 3,000 engaged attendees from around the globe engaging virtually in a series of high-value sessions about the future of Digital Health. Topics encompassed everything from practical pointers on virtual care, to the latest know-how on virtual billing, and a demonstration on how…