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Northern Ontario Medical Journal
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Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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North Bay doc rolls out MiHealth North Bay family physician Dr. Wendy Graham has launched a personal health record application that will allow patients to share information about their medications, allergies and chronic diseases with health-care providers and family members.
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Online app speeds dermatology assessments A teledermatology service offered by the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) is dramatically reducing the amount of time it takes for preliminary assessments of moles and rashes. Launched in April, the service allows primary care providers to take a photograph of a patient’s mole or rash, add notes about the patient and transmit it to a participating dermatologist using the OTN’s secure store forward technology.
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ALC data informs decision-making Having accurate and timely data on the number of alternate level of care (ALC) patients taking up acute care beds is a prerequisite for understanding the severity of the problem and developing strategies to alleviate it. | |
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Doorways moves assessments online Several health-care agencies and organizations providing mental health and addiction services in the Thunder Bay and Algoma districts are getting a taste of Ontario’s new Integrated Assessment Record (IAR) repository. | |
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Preventative health care keeps Elliot Lake retirees fit A former mining town, Elliot Lake has successfully reinvented itself as a retirement community. According to the 2006 census data, 31.6 per cent of the town’s population of 11,549 is 65 years of age and older, ranking it well above every other community in northeastern Ontario in terms of age. The equivalent percentages for Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Sudbury and Timmins are 18.5 per cent, 16 per cent, 14.9 per cent and 12.7 per cent, respectively. | |
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EMR adoption surpasses halfway mark Just over half of Northern Ontario’s family physicians are using electronic medical record (EMR) technology, according to statistics compiled by OntarioMD, which manages the EMR Adoption Program on behalf of eHealth Ontario. | |
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eHealth takes giant step forward in northwest The introduction of a Physician Office Integration (POI) eHealth initiative in northwestern Ontario is speeding up the delivery of hospital reports to primary care providers, saving paper and freeing clerical staff from the monotonous task of printing, faxing and mailing approximately 22,000 reports every month.
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Championing emergency ultrasound In another 10 years, emergency ultrasound machines will replace the stethoscope as the physician's principal diagnostic instrument, and every medical student in Canada will be trained to use it, predicts Dr. Ray Wiss, an emergency physician at Sudbury Regional Hospital. | |
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North Bay streamlines patient flow through ER Wait times at North Bay General's Emergency Room (ER) are poised to head south as several new streamlining initiatives get under way, thanks to $797,000 in funding from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's Pay-for-Results program. | |
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Thumbs up for vending machine style dispensing It looks like a big vending machine and it is making life easier for staff at both the North Bay General Hospital (NBGH) and the Northeast Mental Health Centre (NEMHC). Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs) and Computerized Medication Administration Records (cMARs) have now been implemented on every in-patient unit at the NEMHC, on the Adult In-Patient Unit at NBGH, and in the Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit. ADCs make medication dispensing easier for staff and have the potential to significantly reduce medication errors. | |
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Intensity-modulated radiation catches on The increased use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) at hospitals across Canada is maximizing the cancer-destroying capabilities of radiation treatment while minimizing its effects on healthy tissues and organs, says Dr. Adam Andronowski, a radiation oncologist at Sudbury Regional Hospital. | |
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LHINs tackle e-Health challenges Developing e-Health systems across Northern Ontario is a tall order, but the North East and North West Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) are rising to the challenge. | |
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Telehomecare pilot cuts hospital, ER visits A recently concluded telehomecare pilot designed to monitor patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) showed a dramatic decrease in hospital and emergency room visits during a four-month trial. | |
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Technology allows caregivers to check on seniors Home sweet home can be even sweeter with the CareLink Advantage system.
The 24-hour medical alarm response system is promoting independent living for aging loved ones, the physically disabled or those with cognitive disabilities by “tethering†caregivers electronically via the web, cell phone and email.
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High-definition MIS suites speed recovery Dr. Gabriel Mapeso, a surgeon at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, remembers how excited he was when he got his first 1.5-megapixel digital camera. Now, it sits abandoned in a drawer somewhere, replaced by a 10-megapixel camera.
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PDA pilot: help is close at hand When Lisa Russell, a registered nurse with the Timmins Family Health Team, makes a home visit to a senior citizen and isn’t sure about a new drug her patient has been prescribed, help is close at hand. | |
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eHealth becoming a reality Someday in the not too distant future, hospital emergency room staff will be able to access everything they need to know about a patient’s medical history, the medications he’s on, his lab tests and diagnostic images prior to commencing treatment.
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eCHN keeps doctors up-to-date Sudbury pediatrician Dr. Burke Baird recently referred a young patient who was experiencing seizures to a specialist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
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NEON connects northeastern hospitals Nearly 10 years ago, at the sunset of the last millennium, government funding was earmarked to thwart the worldwide technological mayhem that was supposed to occur because of the so-called Y2K Bug.
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Navigating the EMR marketplace Managing a busy medical practice, keeping pace with an ever-expanding knowledge base and having a personal life is enough of a challenge. Selecting an electronic medical record application is one task most doctors would rather avoid.
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Pushing the electronic envelope When the Group Health Centre, an ambulatory care centre in Sault Ste. Marie, became one of the first organizations in Ontario to install an electronic medical record system in 1997, physicians and other health-care professionals using it weren’t sure what to think.
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EMRs enable powerful functionality Vendors of electronic medical record (EMR) software for physician practices in Canada have tended to be smaller, regional players with applications tailored to the individual requirements of provincial health ministries across the country.
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Telemedicine: the next frontier The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) has been given the green light to launch a Telehomecare pilot project that will allow health-care professionals to remotely monitor patients in
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New network to speed traffic A state-of-the-art, dedicated high performance computer network being built for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) will provide Ontario’s health-care system with a faster and more reliable communication infrastructure. | |
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PACS paves way for pan-Northern eHealth record Health-care providers often think of the largest urban centres and hospitals as pioneers in the deployment of new technology, but in more cases than is generally realized, it’s smaller communities in Canada’s more sparsely-populated north that lead the way. | |
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