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Current and Potential Value of Canadians’ Secure Access to Their Health Information and Digital Health e-Services

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June 26, 2018 | 2:00 PM- 3:00 PM (EST) In collaboration with the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), Infoway recently completed a comprehensive study to estimate the evidence-based value of citizen access to their health information...

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Citizen Health Portal Improves Access and Helps Patients Better Manage Their Care

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Closing the Circle of Care is a First Nations-driven initiative that is leveraging a Canada Health Infoway investment with the Cowichan Tribes of British Columbia. The goal is to improve access, efficiency and effectiveness of community-based digital...

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Telehomecare: Receiving High Marks from Patients while Providing Significant Value for the Health Care System

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Posted on May 24, 2018 by Krista Balenko , Jennifer Conn and Simon Hagens Over the past decade, Infoway has been investing in telehomecare (also known as remote patient monitoring or RPM) programs in Canada, delivering health services to patients in the...

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Benefits of e-Health

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e-Health, or digital health, helps Canadians access better quality care more efficiently, through solutions and services such as electronic medical records, telehomecare, virtual visits and patient portals. For clinicians, it means more informed...

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Patient Engagement

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Infoway’s goal is to help improve the health and health care of Canadians, so it makes sense to engage with those who receive care to shape our strategies and enhance our services. We do this by listening to the perspectives of patients, their...

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Access to Information

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Providing Canadians with Access to their Personal Health Information Infoway is committed to an integrated and person-centred health care system for all Canadians that enables them to access their personal health information. Access to information and...

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Canadian Stories

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Technology is helping to transform health care across the country, and that means people have more tools available to them in managing their own health and communicating with health care providers. To help highlight the progress Canada has already made,...

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Indigenous Peoples

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Infoway is committed to helping improve health care delivery in Indigenous communities across Canada through the scale and spread of innovative digital health solutions. To support this, a pan-Canadian initiative, known as Closing the Circle of Care...

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Infoway Partnership Conference

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Registration Sponsorship Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) invites you join us for the 2018 Infoway Partnership Conference: Driving Access to Care , taking place November 13-14, 2018 in Montreal, Quebec. The conference will once again take place during...

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Patient Portals Enable Proactive — Rather Than Reactive — Health Care

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Posted on November 16, 2017 by J. Tyler Moss My experience with eHealth Saskatchewan’s Citizen Health Information Portal (CHIP) began in the spring of 2016. A request went out to residents of Saskatchewan to sign on to the pilot project; I did, and...

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eHealth Saskatchewan Citizen Health Information Portal (CHIP) White Paper

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10 November 2017

This paper discusses the demonstrated value from citizen access to their health information during the pilot phase of Saskatchewan’s Citizen Health Information Portal (CHIP). Citizens expressed a positive experience with CHIP through a mixed-method...

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Defining Empowerment and Supporting Engagement: Saskatchewan Patients and the eHealth Saskatchewan Citizen Health Information Portal (CHIP)

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10 November 2017

This research study was designed to explore the views of Saskatchewan citizens who took part in the eHealth Saskatchewan Citizen Health Information Portal (CHIP) Pilot project. The study explored the portal use of citizens and the subsequent influence...

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Evaluating Patient Empowerment in Association With eHealth Technology: Scoping Review

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10 November 2017

This scoping review published in Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), explores the concept of patient empowerment within the context of citizen access to their health information through an online personal health record. The review furthers the...

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eHealth Saskatchewan Citizen Health Information Portal (CHIP) Benefits Evaluation Report

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10 November 2017

This report explores the benefits realized from the eHealth Saskatchewan Citizen Health Information Portal (CHIP) Pilot project. CHIP, a citizen-centric personal health record (PHR), allows individual participants to view their personal health...

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Managing Gestational Diabetes Remotely

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Meet Heather from Montreal, Quebec, who was part of an Infoway-funded telehomecare project that not only enabled her to take on a more active role in the management of her gestational diabetes, it allowed her to do so remotely, which meant fewer medical...

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Digital Access to Health Information Saves Time

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Meet Toni, a busy mom from Duncan, British Columbia, who accesses her family’s medical information securely online through the Closing the Circle of Care project, which provides patients with digital access to their health information, while honouring...

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Navigating the Realities of Citizens’ Access to their Heath Information: Direct Access to Laboratory Results in Canada

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Posted on August 29, 2017 by Chad Leaver Follow @chadnandrew Across the world, citizen’s access to their own health information through secure online tools are becoming a hallmark of modernized health care systems and a catalyst for advancing access to...

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Has Anyone Asked the Patient?

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Posted on August 15, 2017 by Kate Perkins There is a lot happening in the digital health space — almost too much to wrap our heads around. To ensure clinician uptake, it is essential that digital health solutions and tools can be seamlessly integrated...

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Digital Health Myths

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Digital health is transforming the way Canadians access health care as more and more are able to view their personal health history online, connect with their care provider through a virtual setting, and e-book medical appointments. It has also changed...

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Citizen Engagement Key to Achieving CHIP Citizen Portal Pilot Success

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Posted on June 27 by Lillian Ly In early 2016, eHealth Saskatchewan (eHealth) launched the Citizen Health Information Portal (CHIP) pilot that ran from January through to August. CHIP is a secure, online web service that provides users with quick and...

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