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Clinical Articles /
BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP,
April 2009
... has been identified as an essential component of health care reform in Canada.[ 1,2 ] EMRs have been shown to ... information at the point of care.[ 7 ] • Improving health delivery analysis through more efficient outcome ... such as accessing patient information and entering notes, and two levels of “patient management” functions, ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
May 2009
... Dr Michael Ramsden, a rheumatologist in New Westminster, notes that “25 rheumatologists from across the province ... community just didn’t find the value in EMRs until the health authority was able to provide the diagnostic and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Kyle D. Burns, MD, FRCPC,
June 2009
... and postoperative period and entered into a provincial health database. Methods Patients Study subjects were chosen ... 13 ] criteria and was made retrospectively using progress notes. The nurses had been trained in using the confusion ... DSM-IV-TR criteria were met according to the progress notes, if the patient’s CAM rating was positive, or if the ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
October 2009
... wish to use more sophisticated tools to capture consult notes in a highly structured template form that can then be ... of the practice (e.g., role of the local and provincial health authorities, nature of patient-provider ... working with a number of these specialists, the regional health authorities, and the PITO Steering Committee to ...