PWC’s “Top ten health industry issues in 2010” is a great primer on the themes and trends that will drive our industry over the next year. While the focus is on the American healthcare system, there is a great deal of thoughtful and relevant content that make it universally worth a read. The subtitle “Squeezing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘eHealth’
Ontario HIMSS Chapter Annual General Meeting
Spring Networking Conference & Annual General Meeting Thursday June 19, 2008, 9am Registration, lunch included, wrap-up 3pm Sunnybrook Estates, Bayview Avenue, Toronto Education program:E-Strategy Agenda in Ontario – through the eyes of the clinicians Where are we, what has to happen next, issues and challenges from the perspective of the end user Speakers: William Pascal, [...]
EU eHealth without frontiers Conference
The eHealth 2008 conference, with the theme of “eHealth without frontiers”, will be held in Slovenia between May 6-7, 2008. It is the sixth in a series of high-level eHealth conferences that have taken place since 2003. As always, this conference is a key date in the eHealth annual policy awareness-raising agenda. The conference will [...]
WIHIR eHealth Security Workshop
DON’T ATTEND THE EHEALTH INFORMATION SECURITY WORKSHOP!WHY NOT?- It’s all about (yuk!) learning – learning about security isn’t important unless you want to advance in your job. You’ll only learn about what makes privacy possible. – It’s too cheap! It costs less than any other program you can access, so it ain’t no Gucci! You [...]
SSHA focuses on security to provide patient access to EHRs
Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) in Ontario is planning to provide a voluntary EHR that will allow both healthcare professionals and patient’s access to their own medical records within the next five years. The EHR is planned as a mashup of independent databases located throughout the province that will provide a lifetime health history [...]
WIHIR Smarter Health Seminar
WIHIR Smarter Health Seminar Title: Smart Systems for Health Agency – Helping Improve Ontario’s Health Care Through e-Health Innovation Guest Speaker: William Albino, Chief Executive Officer, Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Time: 3:00PM – 4:30PM Physical Location: Davis Centre Room 1302, University of Waterloo Register to attend in person, [...]
e-Patients white paper a very informative read
A white paper entitled: “e-Patients: How they can help us heal healthcare” authored by Dr. Tom Ferguson with the e-patients scholars working group is now available on-line in both a wiki and PDF format. The basis of the paper is that e-Patients are beginning to drive a healthcare revolution tantamount to the changes the manufacturing [...]
Microsoft launches Amalga Healthcare Systems
Microsoft has launched some new, and rebranded some existing products as the Amalga family of Health Enterprise Systems. This was a big focus at their booth at HIMSS this year where they had a great variety of demos on hand to interact with and introduce the new solutions. The demos I saw looked fantastic and [...]
Top 5 RFID priorities for hospital implementations
This week in Healthcare IT News: At the inaugural RFID in Healthcare Conference, produced by RFID Journal, on Jan 23rd, Awarepoint CEO Jason Howe is set to provide hospitals with the key criteria that should be considered when implementing RFID projects. Howe believes RFID projects should be: Room-level accurate: the location of assets within hospitals [...]
