Shaping the Future of Care: Highlights from OntarioMD’s Digital Health Conference 2025
Here are some of the essential highlights from the 2025 OntarioMD OMD Educates: Digital Health Conference.
Helping You Reclaim Control Over Referral Management
OntarioMD can help you take control of Referral Management. Patient referrals are a crucial part of the healthcare system to ensure continuity of patient care. Our OMD Advisors shines in providing physicians with workflow solutions.
Introducing Ontario’s First Vendor of Record (VOR) Program for AI Scribes
Over the last year, we’ve heard the same request from physicians again and again:"Can someone just vet these AI scribes, make sure they’re safe, and give us a list to choose from?" The Ministry of Health partnered with Supply Ontario and OntarioMD (OMD)…
Patient Consent in a World with AI Scribes
By Ariane Siegel, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer Trust is crucial in any relationship, but even more so between physicians and patients. In fact, Canadians rank medical professionals among their most trusted news sources. As a physician, the key to building patient…
Results of Clinician Tech-Related Burnout Survey: By the Numbers
Clinicians have reported an acute increase in burnout over the last several years – but how can we confirm how much of it is caused by digital health technology? In early 2024, OntarioMD (OMD) partnered with Dalhousie University to conduct a clinician survey*…
OMD Educates: Digital Health Virtual Symposium is upon us!
Chandi Chandrasena, Chief Medical Officer, OntarioMD. MD CCFP FCFP I’m super excited for our Digital Health Virtual Symposium this Friday, June 14 (fingers crossed the technology works!). I wanted to share some thoughts on how this program came together, and why it’s relevant…
Celebrating Heroes on Doctors’ Day
May 1 is National Physicians’ Day, known as Doctors’ Day in Ontario – a day to recognize the tireless work of physicians who care for patients and are the backbone of our health-care system. Whether serving in hospitals, private practices, long-term care homes,…
Useful Software for Completing Forms
By Mark Dermer MD, Medical Advisor/Consultant, Innovator and Virtual Primary Care Physician Completing forms is an unavoidable burden for doctors. Still, we can lessen our work effort and optimize efficiency by using tools that manage forms digitally, from the time we first receive…
Using a medical scribe for charting and paperwork to reduce physician burnout
By Dr. John Crosby I met Dr. Mark Tomen, a 62-year-old family physician from Chatham, at a conference in Toronto and found out he had a scribe. It began 10 years ago when his clinic hired a medical secretary straight out of community…
Welcome to AI-IntegratedCare: Connecting Patients and Doctors with Innovative Technologies
In the not-so-distant future, artificial intelligence (AI) tools will become standard features of patient visits with their doctors. A wave of advancements in AI is already beginning to reshape the health care landscape. This article addresses the art of the possible from the patient’s and doctor’s perspectives, however, it does not exhaustively catalogue commercial technology offerings for any market/area referenced.