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…
By Dr. John Crosby, OMD Physician Peer Leader and practicing family physician in Cambridge, Ontario OntarioMD (OMD) offers a variety of blog posts to support clinicians with digital health tips and tools for varying skill levels. Content is tailored towards clinicians’ diverse needs,…
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…
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…
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…
By Christina Jones, Policy Analyst, OntarioMD THE ISSUE Opioid-related harms continue to be an ongoing epidemic health care providers and policymakers are striving to remedy. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic brought forward the significance of social determinants of health (SDOH) in connection…
Watch this video and get inspired to acknowledge your colleague! OMD’s annual Luminary Awards will begin accepting 2022 nominations next Monday, June 13. This is your opportunity to acknowledge a clinician colleague who has embraced and inspired the use of #digitalhealth tools in their practice…
Contributed by Darren Larsen, MD, Chief Medical Officer, OntarioMD With fairly radical transformation happening in health care in Ontario as we speak, a question looms large: how do we measure success? How do we know that the change we get is what we need? Which lens…
Contributed by Dr. Steven Klassen, Family Physician, Thunder Bay, ON and OntarioMD Peer Leader Recently, I accepted a 70 year old man into my family practice. He presented to our first encounter with nothing but his spouse to aid his recall. I had…
A national electronic health record for primary care - - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/191/2/E28 The above editorial describes the author’s desire and need for a single national Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in primary care. He speculates that many of our problems in primary care could be solved by such…