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• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Infoway Announces Clinical Council

  Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) announced today the formation of a new Clinical Council to provide advice on the organization's clinical engagement strategy and investments. The Council will be chaired by Dr. Michael Golbey, who is a practicing family...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Albertans get connected to reliable health information

  Improved provincial wait times reporting website also back on-line (Edmonton, AB) - A new online health tool connecting Albertans to trusted health care information and services, other health tools and wellness management tips has been launched.
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Province launches eChart Manitoba

  (Winnipeg, MB) - Manitoba's electronic health-record system, known as eChart Manitoba, was launched today by Health Minister Theresa Oswald at Kildonan Medical Centre, the first site to implement the new system.
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  NEODIN Completes Northern Connections

  (Sudbury, ON) - Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital, Timmins District Hospital and 22 other sites in Ontario's north have become the most recent hospitals to complete their integration to the Northern and Eastern Ontario Diagnostic Imaging...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Communication needed for medication safety in Canada

  National summit to address this important solution to patient safety (Toronto, ON) - A national summit was hosted today that will ultimately provide important solutions to improving communication and reducing preventable medication errors at transitions...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Infoway Challenge Sparks Innovations for Health Care

  ImagineNation Ideas Challenge Winners Announced (Toronto, ON) - Imagine having your child's immunization record at the click of a mouse, as well as email alerts when they need a vaccination.
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  mihealth™ Consumer Health Application Achieves Infoway Certification

  Assures product built according to National privacy and security standards (Toronto, ON) - Canadians are one step closer to having secure access to their personal health records as mihealth^TM achieves Infowaycertification, announced Richard...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Connecting Electronic Health Information For GTA Residents

  Delivering Faster, Smarter and More Coordinated Patient Care (Toronto, ON) - Work is underway to ensure health care providers will be able to share electronic health information for Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents, who represent 47 per cent of the...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Province Invests in Electronic Tools to Improve Patient Care: Oswald

  (Winnipeg, MB) - Manitoba is launching innovative electronic tools that make the health-care system work better for patients and health-care providers, Health Minister Theresa Oswald announced today.
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Challenge to Accelerate Clinical Value using Technology Kicks Off

  Over $1 million dollars available to be won (Toronto, ON) - Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) today launched its ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge, which will accelerate the use of innovative IT solutions with the potential to improve healthcare quality...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Online patient records enhancing care for 2 million Ontarians

  eHealth Ontario invests $5M in ClinicalConnect More people across the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) and Waterloo Wellington (WW) Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) now have access to better quality and more efficient health care.
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Work begins on Ontario’s fourth and final diagnostic imaging repository

  1.5 Million Patients to Benefit from Faster Test Results (Toronto, ON) - Work on Ontario’s fourth and largest diagnostic imaging repository is underway and will begin benefitting patients across the western parts of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Wanted: Innovations that Improve Health Care using Information Technology

  Infoway invites Canadian innovators to join first-ever results-based ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge (Stratford, ON) - Canadian innovators are invited to participate in the ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge announced Dr. Jennifer Zelmer, Senior Vice...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Infoway Certification Services expands to include Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

  Certification supports drive toward trusted, interoperable EMRs (Toronto, ON) - Electronic Medical Record (EMR) certification has been added to Canada Health Infoway's (Infoway) certification services, announced Richard Alvarez, President and CEO,...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Canadian Faculties of Pharmacies to include effective use of information and communications technologies in curriculum

  (Toronto, ON) - Better preparing pharmacy students to practice in modern, technology-enabled environments is the objective of a new initiative launched today by the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC) and Canada Health Infoway (Infoway).
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Infoway one of two organizations representing Canada at The Power of Open: A Global Discussion

  Event coincides with Opening of United Nations Session (New York, NY) - Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) today served as an example of how to foster innovation at an international event to celebrate the launch of The Open Government Partnership, an...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Canadians Asked How Health Care can be Improved with Information Technology

  Imagine an innovative approach to make our health and health care better using information or communications technologies - what's your idea? (Toronto, ON) - Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) today launched its ImagineNation Ideas Challenge, asking...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Canada Health Infoway, Trillium Health Centre and PatientOrderSets.com collaborate to benefit seniors care

  New project will improve safety and quality of care for residents of long-term and complex continuing care facilities in Ontario Mississauga/West Toronto, ON - Patient care for seniors in long-term or complex continuing care facilities will benefit from...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Infoway establishes Tech Watch Group to monitor and promote emerging technologies for health

  Dennis Giokas to lead new focus for Infoway (Toronto, ON) - Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) has established an Emerging Technology Group to identify and guide the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in health care innovation,...
• Infoway.ca / 2011 News Releases

  Core elements of electronic health records in place for almost half of Canadians

  Benefits being realized across the country as a result of investments in EHRs (Toronto) - As a result of investments made by Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and its jurisdictional partners, Infoway President and CEO, Richard Alvarez reports today that...