Success stories
Electronic health record (EHR) systems are making a difference in the lives of Canadian patients through more efficient and effective health care delivery today. Read the stories or watch the videos below to learn more.
Online patient portal opens new doors
Experts say self-management combined with early intervention of health care teams can delay the progression of kidney disease in the pre-dialysis stage.
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Expanding the circle of care to pharmacists
In Sault Ste. Marie, EMRxtra makes electronic medical records in doctors' offices available to local pharmacists.
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Nova Scotia goes digital
In Eastern Canada, similarly advanced technology is making an enormous difference in patient outcomes and treatments costs.
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Quebec's doctors in favour of the DSQ
Our health system is a complex one: universal access to care complicated by such factors as an aging population, longer average life spans and an explosion in technological developments including new medications, is putting substantial financial pressures on the government. By Claude Poirier, Eng., M.D., M.Sc.
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Mobile care clinic, other measures improve efficiencies
Since Ontario's Sherbourne Health Centre opened in 2003, it has been on technology's cutting edge — using innovative measures such as electronic medical records (EMRs) to make health care better.
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The Montmagny paperless clinic
Implementing an electronic health record requires a lot of effort but the Montmagny-L'Islet Family Medicine Group in Québec has met the challenge and succeeded in computerizing all of its activities. By Dr Jean-François Rancourt
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Technology overcomes geography
For the many Canadians who live outside of the major urban centres, accessing critical health care often involves the emotional and financial trauma of leaving family and home behind.
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SARS outbreak illustrates impediments of antiquated system
Forty-four people would die of SARS in Canada in 2003; a total of 442 probable and suspected cases would occur. At the end of June, then Ontario Health Minister Tony Clement estimated that SARS had cost that province's health care system $945 million.
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Kiosks a boon to triage nurses, ER patients
While many Canadians are familiar with using electronic kiosks to check in at airports or to do their banking – a ground-breaking project at Scarborough Hospital will use the idea in their emergency departments.
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Telemedicine speeds access to care in Nunavik
The reality of medical care in Nunavik is very different from the situation in southern Quebec. Because of the region's vast distances, geographic isolation and its sparse population, specialized professional and technical medical resources are not always available.
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