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Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
... family physician with a focus on geriatric general practice. A last-minute decision to pursue medicine led Dr ... where after 2 decades of satisfying work running his practice he’s also in a role that fulfills everything else ... these people are cool!   Having spent 27 years in general practice, 23 of them in Vancouver, how have you seen primary ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... began in 1995, including 10 years on the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) and 8 years as its ... Australia, which is when I worked in Cairns doing family practice and worked in the Cairns-based hospital. Then we ... time. We did so many fantastic things to improve family practice. It was inspirational to be there. Are there any ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... something I hadn’t seen before in 28 years of practice, or something that other emerg docs on shift at the ... if we could better communicate the work of the General Practice Services Committee, Shared Care Committee and Specialist Services Committee so that their best practice recommendations would be adopted across the ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2013
... Columbia is now at 80% of target full-service family practice and specialist physicians, one of the highest rates ... records and patient care. EMR innovation is improving practice for many physicians by enabling proactive care, ... a GP in Kel-owna who has adopted EMR technology in his practice, says that having an EMR makes him a better doctor. ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD December 2013
... efficiently. Physicians all over the province, in varying practice types are using different EMR systems and are ... satisfaction. At the same time, physicians in similar practice types, using the same EMRs, are finding challenges ... and tested by a group of 500 users over the past year. Practice automation coaches, physician MOA mentors, and EMR ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2012
... wasted a minimum of 2 years. Many of them have been out of practice for 10 years, which is way too long. There needs to ... or an ophthalmologist. The division of family practice had a party for the graduates and that was the deciding factor; they wooed me in. My practice was always half full-service family practice and ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD December 2012
... efficiently. Physicians all over the province, in varying practice types are using different EMR systems and are ... satisfaction. At the same time, physicians in similar practice types, using the same EMRs, are finding challenges ... and tested by a group of 500 users over the past year. Practice automation coaches, physician MOA mentors, and EMR ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... What made you interested in switching from private practice into public service? A combination of factors. I’d ... lots of challenges, of course. I think any professional practice has ongoing challenges to it. But I’d done that ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, January/February 2011
... half of the 5500 eligible BC physicians in community-based practice have now adopted an EMR through the support of PITO ... Notably, the adoption rate among large full-service family practice clinics (six or more physicians in group practice) has reached 90%, and almost 75% among all clinics ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, April 2011
... than 14 BC communities have developed EMR communities of practice (CoPs). CoPs bring together GPs and specialists in a ... completed the application to form an EMR community of practice in September 2008.  By March 2010, 80% of the CoP ... through joint activities with their new Division of Family Practice and the Practice Support Program (PSP). Salmon Arm ...