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January 28, 2013 (Toronto, ON) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Consulting Cadre International Inc. announced today Clarity Health Journal^TM has successfully achieved Infoway's Category IV Non-Transactional Pre-Implementation Certification as a Consumer Health Application.

January 11, 2013 (Toronto, ON) - Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) along with Alpha Global iT and YMS announced today that Globe Med version 2.0 and YMS Electronic Medical Record (EMR) version 8.7/4.5 have achieved Infoway’s J-class, Laboratory and Clinical Documents certification.

December 6, 2012 (Toronto, Ontario) Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Open Source Clinical Application Resource (OSCAR) Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Inc. announced today that OSCAR version 12.1 has achieved Infoway’s J-class, Laboratory and Clinical Documents certification.

Recipients of Canada Health Infoway’s ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge Momentum Awards announced

December 4, 2012 (Toronto, ON) - From clinicians in British Columbia who use digital tools to manage the medications of patients with kidney disease to physiotherapy patients in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia who schedule appointments electronically, a growing number of Canadians are benefitting from innovative health IT solutions thanks to the efforts of teams participating in the ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge. Participating teams saw a 65% growth in users in just 10 months, from January to October 2012.

November 28, 2012 (Toronto, Ontario) For the first time in the province, children will benefit from their pediatric care providers having access to the online lab results contained in the Ontario laboratories information system (OLIS). This means that care providers will now have a more complete and immediate picture of their patients’ health.

November 21, 2012 (Island Wide) Cardiac and Internal Medicine specialists at Heart Function Clinics located in Nanaimo, Campbell River and Victoria are listening to the heartbeats of patients who live in communities across Vancouver Island in real time with the addition of digital stethoscopes to existing telehealth technologies.

Canadians Say Clinicians Using Electronic Records More Likely to Know their Health History

November 15, 2012 (Toronto, Ontario) – More Canadian physicians than ever are embracing the move from paper to electronic medical records (EMR), according to a new survey released today. More than half of Canada’s family physicians (56 per cent) used EMRs in mid-2012, up from 23 per cent in 2006 according to the Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians.

October 25, 2012 (Toronto, Ontario) Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and ABELMed Inc. announced today that ABELMed EHR - EMR/ (PM) version 12, ABEL’s comprehensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and practice management solution has achieved Infoway’s J-class, Laboratory and Clinical Documents certification, ensuring it conforms to national and international standards for privacy, security and interoperability.

Secure access to online health information, tools could avoid 47 million in-person medical appointments

October 22, 2012 (Toronto, Ontario) – Canadians could have gained nearly 70 million hours of time in 2011 had they been able to consult with their health care providers, access test results (lab tests, MRIs, and X-rays) and request prescription renewals electronically, according to Valuing Time Saved:  Assessing the Impact of Patient Time Saved from the Adoption of Consumer Health Solutions, a new Conference Board of Canada Study commissioned by Canada Health Infoway.

October 12, 2012 (London, Ontario) – Lawson Health Research Institute today announced an innovative project that uses a smartphone and web application (app) specially developed to help people living with mental illness play a more active role in their recovery process.

September 7, 2012 (Toronto, Ontario) – Improving the patient experience through increased quality of care and efficiencies is the aim of recent investments in Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for outpatient clinics, announced Richard Alvarez, President and CEO, Canada Health Infoway. 

ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge teams surpass 1 million uses of qualified e-health solutions since January

August 14, 2012 (Toronto, ON) - From patients booking medical appointments online to pathologists using e-tools to record and report cancer test results, there have been more than one million uses of electronic solutions reported as part of the ongoing ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge, announced Jennifer Zelmer, Senior Vice President, Clinical Adoption and Innovation, Canada Health Infoway (Infoway).

August 2, 2012 (Toronto, Ontario) –  Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Med Access Inc. announced today that Med Access Electronic Medical Record (EMR) version 4 has achieved Infoway’s EMR National Class certification, ensuring it conforms to national and international standards for privacy, security and interoperability.

June 4, 2012 (Toronto, ON) — Primary care practices with electronic medical records (EMRs) identified patients who need preventative or follow-up care approximately 30 times more quickly than paper-based clinics,  according to a study commissioned by Canada Health Infoway.

May 31, 2012 (Toronto, ON) – Supporting clinicians to enhance the effective use and integration of technology in clinical practice is the objective of a new initiative launched by OntarioMD, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) and Canada Health Infoway (Infoway). 

May 28, 2012 (Toronto, ON) – GE Healthcare Canada, the first in its class to complete the Infoway certification process, continues to demonstrate leadership with the announcement of Infoway certification for a second diagnostic imaging product, the Centricity™ Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS). 

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May 16, 2012 (Toronto, ON) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) today announced the recipients of the Trailblazer Awards, as part of the ongoing ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge.

May 11, 2012 (Owen Sound, ON) -- Grey Bruce Health Services is leading a project with two Toronto hospitals to expand the use of electronic medical records (EMR) in ambulatory care clinics. GBHS, together with North York General Hospital and Toronto East General Hospital, received a $2.9 million investment from Canada Health Infoway to collaborate on this joint initiative.