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• Infoway.ca / Digital Health

  Medication Non-adherence: Exploring the Tension Between Patient Safety and Patient Autonomy

  It may be a surprising stat to some, but roughly 30 per cent of prescriptions generated in Canada by prescribers for their patients go unfilled.¹ Reasons range from prescriptions that are lost or damaged, to the cost of the medications, to...
• InfoCentral / InfoCentral News

  Medication Adherence Monitoring: Implications for Patients and Providers

  With the advent of electronic methods of medication adherence monitoring, this ethical dilemma now involves a new layer of complexity. This paper presents two scenarios encountered in clinical practice that reflect issues occurring regularly in the...
• PrescribeIT / External Resource

  Medication Adherence Monitoring: Implications for Patients and Providers

  Non-adherence to medication can lead to adverse patient outcomes and increased health system costs. New paper explores the ethics of monitoring patients’ adherence to medication.
• PrescribeIT / Uncategorised

  Nonadherence With Prescribed Medication in Primary Care: A Cohort Study

  Primary nonadherence is probably an important contributor to suboptimal disease management, but methodological challenges have limited investigation of it. This study of Quebec patients and all their incident prescriptions from primary care electronic...
• Infoway.ca / 2025 Announcements

  Accuro Electronic Medical Record Platform is now Integrated with PrescribeIT, Canada’s National e-Prescribing Service

  August 22, 2025 (TORONTO) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and QHR Technologies Inc are pleased to announce the successful integration of PrescribeIT^® into Accuro^®EMR, with sign up currently available in Ontario. The availability...
• Infoway.ca / Digital Health

  14% of Canadians Have Lost or Damaged a Prescription — and This Comes at a Cost

  Prescriptions for medication are a regular part of the lives of most Canadians. A recent survey conducted by Nielsen and commissioned by Infoway found that 65 per cent of Canadians aged 18 and over have obtained a prescription in the past two years,...
• PrescribeIT / About us

  PrescribeIT Benefits

  Prescribers and pharmacists work together to ensure patients get the medications they need. But almost 30 per cent of prescriptions are never filled. Not only can medication non-adherence lead to adverse events, it increases costs to the health care...
• InfoCentral / Spotlights

  Three Decades of Empowering Diagnostic Decision-Making: LOINC's Milestone Celebration

  While there is work ahead for interoperability in health care, let’s take a moment to celebrate the accomplishments thus far and extend our congratulations to LOINC on their 30-year milestone.
• Infoway.ca / Patient Perspectives

  Modernizing Prescribing Practices to Improve Patient Care

  In our digital world, it’s time to leave behind handwritten prescriptions. e-Prescribing enables prescribers to send a prescription electronically to a patient’s pharmacy of choice, resulting in a safer, more convenient experience for patients and...
• Accelerō / Initiatives

  Patient Summary

  A patient summary provides a snapshot of essential healthcare information about a patient. It includes a minimal, standardized set of clinically relevant data that is specialty-agnostic and condition-independent. This information is readily usable by...
• Infoway.ca / Digital Health

  Why it’s Time to Retire the Fax Machine and Consider PrescribeIT™

  As physicians, we constantly look for ways to improve our practice, including staying up-to-date on the latest research, guidelines and best practices to ensure we offer our patients the best care available. Part of this also includes making sure our...
• Infoway.ca / Digital Health

  Use of Simple Digital Technology Makes Big Health Care Impact

  On average, 50 per cent of those with chronic diseases deviate from recommended treatment protocols, which can not only affect their health outcomes, but also cost the health care system (estimated at $300 billion annually in the U.S.).¹
• InfoCentral / Spotlights

  PrescribeIT Unveiled at e-Health

  June 23, 2016 PrescribeIT will enable prescribers to electronically transmit a prescription to a patient’s pharmacy of choice, eliminating paper prescriptions while optimizing jurisdiction investments in their drug information systems.
• InfoCentral / Spotlights

  Expanding ePrescribing and Access to Care across Canada

  Infoway’s ACCESS Health program will empower Canadians to better manage their health and strengthen their care teams through digitally-enabled care.
• Infoway.ca / 2015 News Releases

  NexJ Health’s Population Health Management Solution Achieves Canada Health Infoway Certification

  (Toronto) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and NexJ Health , a division of NexJ Systems Inc. , announced today that NexJ Connected Wellness has achieved Infoway’s Consumer Health Application certification.
• Infoway.ca / Digital Health

  A Patient Partner’s Reflections on the Infoway Partnership Conference

  As one of the patient partners awarded a scholarship to attend this Patients Included conference, I was very grateful and pleased to be able to bring a patient lens to the event. We were warmly included and appreciated at the Partnership Conference....
• Infoway.ca / Procurement

  Pan-Canadian Patient Summary Specifications Procurement Toolkit

  Recognizing the pivotal role of interoperability in modern healthcare systems, this document presents a robust toolkit designed for procurement purposes. The toolkit serves as a guide for ensuring digital health solutions deployed in Canada are fully...
• Infoway.ca / Benefits Evaluation

  Quantifying the Benefits of Patient Access to their Own Health Information

  Canadians are increasingly interested in accessing their own personal health information (PHI) and medical information, but many have still yet to do so. Learn more about the impact of patient access to their own PHI and the benefits for health care...
• Infoway.ca / Partnership

  Recommendations from the Digital Health Interoperability Task Force

  Comprised of physician and healthcare leaders, the Digital Health Interoperability Task Force was established to identify system-level barriers and propose solutions for implementing interoperable digital health solutions across Canada. Learn more about...
• Infoway.ca / Procurement

  Artificial Intelligence Procurement Toolkit

  This toolkit provides a guide for healthcare organizations, including primary care clinics and hospitals, to navigate the complexities of AI procurement while ensuring compliance with regulations, ethical practices, and patient safety.

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