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…
by Christina Jones, Policy Analyst, OntarioMD (OMD) The onset and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the drastic changes it brought to individuals’ daily lives, including social distancing, and periods of lockdown, impacted mental health across populations and how care could be provided…
by Jamie Louie, OntarioMD Why is digital health so important? Even before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the rapid adoption of virtual care, digital health has always played a crucial role in a patient’s health care journey. In celebration of national Digital Health Week…
In Memoriam – Randy Filinski This blog post is in memory of one of OntarioMD’s (OMD) inaugural Patient Leaders, Randy Filinski. Randy passed away on May 28, but leaves a legacy for us at OMD of passion to provide patient-centred care for Ontario patients.
In this fourth entry in our video series on the EMR Quality Dashboard, OntarioMD CMO Dr. Darren Larsen discusses the importance of good data quality and how analytics can help patient care through population health management. https://vimeo.com/296938515
Contributed by Surya Qarin, OntarioMD Practice Management Assistant Anyone that has known me long enough knows I have spent much of my life in and out of hospitals – and that’s not because the doctors are cute. As a matter of fact, Etobicoke…
Submitted by OntarioMD Dr. Adam Stewart This blog post was originally published on April 22, 2018, on Dr. Adam Stewart's website at www.stewartmedicine.com. Information and data have value in every industry. The value of data in health care is only beginning to…
Contributed by OntarioMD Peer Leader Dr. Yves Raymond Recently, Newfoundland physician Dr. Thomas Hall contributed an opinion piece to CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca, the online home of The Medical Post. Hall’s article – which can be read here (if you’ve registered for a Canadian Healthcare Network…
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 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…