As the implementation of electronic patient record (ePR) begins at Providence Care in Kingston, examination of current processes and planning for future processes have led to a number of quality improvement initiatives involving documentation, oversight and equipment. “The electronic patient record ...

St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto is excited about our progress to date as we enter the later stages of Phase 2 of our eCare project, which is one of our largest clinical undertakings in our hospital’s 90 year history. This ...

On the campus of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), recent privacy software innovations have been united with a clinical database to create one of the most comprehensive, secure, and coveted mother-child registries in Canada. BORN (Better Outcomes Registry ...

Homes and condos wired with sensors and remotely monitored by clinicians could signal a whole new approach to healthcare that gives Canadian seniors the support they need to age safely at home. Health care organizations across Canada are urgently seeking creative ...

Every year, thousands of youth experience a mental health crisis, yet Ontario’s Wait Time Strategy data shows that these children can wait up to a year to be seen by a psychiatrist because of the severe shortage of these specialists. A ...

Canada’s first sustainable health care training workshop was successfully launched recently at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital thanks to funding support from Johnson & Johnson Medical Companies (JJMC) and the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care which provided workshop development and ...

The opening of a new family doctor clinic. The purchase of the latest device for a hospital diagnostic imaging department. The recruitment of specialists who can provide particular treatment in the community for the first time. These are improvements to ...

Last year, 2011 was an excellent year for Brittany Henry. At 24 years of age, she was still alive. And well enough to graduate from the University of Western Ontario, with a specialization in Family Studies. And receive her coveted ...

Patient safety at North York General Hospital (NYGH) received a major boost with the launch of bold technology that is reducing medication errors and providing clinical staff with the latest evidence-based information to facilitate their decision making. Dubbed “eCare”, the initiative ...

It’s an easy scenario to imagine. A man consults his doctor for a particular condition. The doctor writes a prescription. Sometime later that same man develops a different condition and because he is on business out of town, he consults ...