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• Infoway.ca / e-Prescribing

  Enhancing Patient Safety through Better Medication Management

  According to Statistics Canada, 52 per cent of Canadians aged 60-79 take three or more medications. As the population ages, the number of people on multiple medications will only increase. With multiple medications comes an increased risk of adverse...
• PrescribeIT / Blog Posts

  Enhancing Patient Safety through Better Medication Management

  Read about the different ways e-prescribing can help improve medication management.
• Infoway.ca / 2022 News Releases

  Gotodoctor.ca Improves Patient Safety with Roll Out of PrescribeIT

  September 27, 2022 (TORONTO) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Gotodoctor.ca , a digital health solution and its in-person primary care Enhanced Care Clinics , are proud to announce the roll out of Infoway’s PrescribeIT^®, a national...
• Infoway.ca / Access to Care

  World Patient Safety Day 2021: Digital Health for Perinatal Care

  World Patient Safety Day is observed every year on September 17. According to the World Health Organization , its objectives are “…to enhance global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in health care safety, and promote global...
• 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...
• Infoway.ca / Virtual Care

  Virtual Visits Contribute to Patient Safety, Giving Patients More Options

  Virtual care contributes to patient safety in many ways, including keeping Canadians safe during the pandemic by reducing their risk of contracting COVID-19 in clinics and waiting rooms. Learn more in our new article in the October 2020 issue of...
• InfoCentral / InfoCentral News

  How Does PrescribeIT Contribute to Patient Safety?

  Community pharmacist Bill Coon discuses how PrescribeIT TM , Canada's e-prescribing service, helps improve patient safety and improves pharmacy efficiencies by giving pharmacists better insight into patient information.
• Infoway.ca / 2020 News Releases

  Mustimuhw Improves First Nations Patient Safety through PrescribeIT

  (Vancouver) – Mustimuhw Information Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce it's helping to improve the safety of First Nations patients through an agreement with Canada Health Infoway's PrescribeIT^® . Through the agreement, Mustimuhw will...
• Infoway.ca / Digital Health

  e-Prescribing Improves Patient Safety Over Emailed and Auto-faxed Prescriptions

  Email, auto-fax and e-prescribing — one of these methods of prescribing is not like the other. While on the surface, emailed and auto-faxed prescriptions may look the same as e-prescribing, there's a big difference between them when it comes to patient...
• PrescribeIT / PrescribeIT Updates

  Mustimuhw Improves First Nations Patient Safety through PrescribeIT

  Mustimuhw Information Solutions Inc. announced it's helping to improve the safety of First Nations patients through an agreement with Canada Health Infoway's PrescribeIT®. Through the agreement, Mustimuhw will integrate PrescribeIT^®, Canada's...
• PrescribeIT / Blog Posts

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

  Roughly 30 per cent of prescriptions generated by prescribers for their patients go unfilled, which could result in the worsening of a patient’s condition. If prescribers were to receive notifications when a prescription goes unfilled, does this...
• PrescribeIT / Videos

  How Does PrescribeIT™ Contribute to Patient Safety?

  During the 2018 OPA Conference, we had the pleasure of speaking with community Pharmacist Bill Coon from Muskoka Medical Centre Pharmacy. Watch now as he discusses how PrescribeIT™ contributes to patient safety.
• Infoway.ca / e-Prescribing

  EMRs Have Paved the Way for True e-Prescribing, Improving Patient Safety

  Follow @DrRBhyat The world around us has changed rapidly in the past few decades, as technological advances have accelerated — the Internet, smart phones and social media have all redefined the way that we interact in our daily lives.
• PrescribeIT / Videos

  How PrescribeIT Builds in Patient Safety from End to End

  Improved communication between physicians and pharmacist leads to improved patient safety. Ian Lording, Pharmacist Group Director, Pharmacy Relation describes how PrescribeIT™ can help.
• PrescribeIT / Blog Posts

  Blog Post: e-Prescribing Improves Patient Safety Over Emailed and Auto-faxed Prescriptions

  While on the surface, emailed and auto-faxed prescriptions may look the same as e-prescribing, there's a big difference between them when it comes to patient safety.
• PrescribeIT / Blog Posts

  Blog post: EMRs Have Paved the Way for True e-Prescribing, Improving Patient Safety

  PrescribeIT™ will bring prescribing and prescriber-pharmacy communication into the 21st century, while simultaneously enhancing the security of patient prescription information.
• Infoway.ca / 2016 News Releases

  New e-Prescribing Service to Help Increase Patient Safety

  Part of Federal Government’s four pillars approach to drug policy (Toronto) – At the recent Charting the Future of Drug Policy in Canada conference, the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, talked about the important role that Infoway’s...
• Infoway.ca / 2012 News Releases

  North York General Hospital Advances Patient Safety with Health IT

  (Toronto, ON) – North York General Hospital (NYGH) is leading an initiative that will help hospitals from across Canada implement technology that improves patient safety.
• Infoway.ca / 2013 News Releases

  Electronic Medical Records Deliver Efficiencies, Patient Safety, Improved Communication

  More than $1.3 billion in benefits since 2006: New study (Toronto, ON) – With a two-fold increase in adoption since 2006, use of electronic medical records (EMR) in community-based practices in Canada has yielded efficiency and patient care benefits...
• Infoway.ca / e-Prescribing

  Exploring the Use and Impact of e-Prescribing on Pharmacy Practice

  Prescribing practices in Canada are changing, and according to a new survey, those switching to e-prescribing value the ability to reduce fraud and improve patient safety.

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