OMD Blog/Article: 2022 Luminary Award Winner Story – Dr. Howard Cohen

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By Kathy Tudor, Director, Communications & Marketing, OntarioMD Ontario’s doctors inspire me every day. I see their dedication to their patients whenever I use the health care system. I read about the immense workload they face. We, at OntarioMD (OMD), hear their feedback…

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The Art of the Chart: 10 Tips That Help Me Never Chart at Home

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By Dr. Ted Jablonski, who is a singer-songwriter, emerging playwright and neophyte poet who has retired his family practice to focus on sexual medicine and transgender health in Southern Alberta. He now finds himself advising medical students at the Cumming School of Medicine…

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“You’re going to need a bigger boat…”: Protecting Your Community Practice from Cyber Threats 

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By Patricia Borja, Legal Intern, OntarioMD Canadian health care institutions are attractive targets for would-be cyber attackers. Volumes of sensitive information, as well as clinicians’ reliance on networked systems to provide care, present vulnerabilities to exploit. Recent attacks against hospitals and provincial networks…

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Don’t Miss OMD’s Digital Health Conference!

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By Cedaleia Graham, Digital Marketing & Communications Specialist OntarioMD (OMD) will be virtually hosting our third annual Digital Health & Virtual Care (DHVC) Conference on September 29 and 30. This 2-day event is complimentary and features CME-accredited educational sessions on digital health and…

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OntarioMD Certification – A Foundation for Digital Health Innovation and Health System Integration

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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…

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Breaking the Visit – collecting health data before and after in person clinical visits

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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…

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EMR Tips to Help you Resume Cancer Screening

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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…

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Digital Health Week

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…

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