Health Edition
The number of electronic health record projects in Canada has quadrupled since 2004.
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Quick fact
Every year, there are 322 million office-based physician visits (94% result in handwritten paper records).
Infoway in the News
Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) is making headlines.
Below are some recent articles published about Infoway's impact on health care, innovation and EHR.
Health care innovation - It's our generation's turn
Healthcare Information Management and Communications Canada.
It's hard for today's Canadians to imagine a time when a visit to your doctor meant first checking your bank account; or when surgery could financially devastate a family. We are inheritors of one of the greatest social innovations of the last century - an innovation framed in the Canada Health Act.
Electronic glue for piecemeal system
The Globe and Mail
When Karen Madill rushed to her hospital emergency room a couple of weeks ago, she forgot her list of prescriptions - an important oversight given that she has multiple health problems and takes about 30 different medications.
Innovation briefing in The Hill Times
The Hill Times
Infoway's President and CEO, Richard Alvarez, highlights the benefits of investing in health care innovation including transforming health care delivery, strengthening our IT sector, stimulating our economy, and bringing new talent and resources to an already world-class culture of innovation.
The Quebec health record: For a better-managed, more effective and modern system
La Presse
To offer better health care to our citizens, the Government of Quebec is always ready to turn to the latest in technology, as was done with the Quebec Health Record.