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Simon Hagens

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Simon Hagens A few months ago, Canada Health Infoway’s ImagineNation Data Impact Challenge put out a call to all authorized users of Canadian health data sets to determine if important health and health care questions, like...

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Simon Hagens We at Infoway, and a few of our partners, had some nagging questions about our healthcare system. Questions for which we needed answers, but didn’t have them: duplication rates for tests and exams, follow-up rates...

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Simon Hagens Do computers in the exam room impact patient-provider interaction? This is a topic of much debate, but less concrete evidence. To add to the conversation, we analysed data from a survey conducted by Harris Decima...

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...

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Simon Hagens The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in partnership with Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) has released an important new report: “ Unnecessary Care in Canada .”