Call it the great northern seniors migration. Those aren't the words of Chris Sambol, but they epitomize a trend he describes: the composition of Sault Sainte Marie, Ont.'s population is quickly changing as
A CIO might receive an MBA to master the finer points of IT management, but one tactic not learned in business school, inflicting guilt on vendor reps to make sure their technology functions
Published on: August 20th, 2009
Matt Hamblen
@itbusinessca
Days after a hacker claimed to have broken into a database and encrypted millions of prescription records at the Virginia Department of Health Professions, it remains unclear what happened.Whistleblower Web site Wikileaks.org last
Published on: May 11th, 2009
Jaikumar Vijayan
@itbusinessca
A Kaiser Permanente hospital located in a Los Angeles suburb has fired 15 employees and reprimanded eight others for improperly accessing the personal medical records of Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave
Published on: April 2nd, 2009
Jaikumar Vijayan
@itbusinessca
jkjkjkkjRemember, there can often be more than one right answer to a problem. The option you choose can say a lot about the values of your company, and your leadership. Making these "right
Published on: July 24th, 2008
John Baldoni and David Rosenbaum
@itbusinessca
It's called long-term care – but the focus should be on the care, suggested Diane Tennant, an administrator at Marianhill Inc. based in Pembroke, Ont. PointClickCare uses a SaaS model to assist long
In five years, the privacy debate over personal health records will be over, and you and I will be storing our medical records at a central location. Why? Because the benefits of better
The government agency behind linking all health care providers in Ontario through a dedicated network plans to recruit hesitant physicians, consolidate information, and allow citizens access to their records from home in the
One way to curb disease is through the rapid dissemination of data, taking into account everything from human travel to bird migration to weather. Through communication systems, data mining, modelling and analytics, we
Published on: March 5th, 2007
Vawn Himmelsbach
@itbusinessca
A family physician in Toronto has rolled out electronic medical records to reduce errors, track chronic illnesses and ultimately improve patient care.Dr. Michelle Greiver has been practicing medicine for 20 years, and sees
Published on: July 20th, 2006
Vawn Himmelsbach
@itbusinessca
With the help of $1 million in seed funding from Canadian benefactor Peter A. Silverman, the three-year agreement signed last October is meant to share medical knowledge and research through distance learning that
Published on: June 24th, 2006
Fawzia Sheikh
@itbusinessca
Nova Scotia is on the last leg of a marathon data management project which will see the province fully switch over to digital imaging.Nova Scotia is on the last leg of a marathon
TIG recently gathered three health care IT executives to discuss some of the most challenging issues facing their sector today. Case management has emerged as one of those. This is what Tim Beasley,
Published on: March 24th, 2006
Martin Slofstra
@itbusinessca
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