In provinces and territories, in regional health authorities and health care institutions and in physicians’ offices across the country, creative efforts are being made to introduce information technology that will help in the provision of care. Watch this page for information about these initiatives in Canada and elsewhere.

• Future Practice [January 2009]

• EMR Case Studies

• Guiding Principles for Physician Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Adoption in Ambulatory Clinical Practice (CMA Policy 2008)

• Information technology and health care in Canada: 2008 status report

• EMR: The push is on to get connected

• A prescription for making progress

• CMA President discusses consumer use of Internet for health information

• Investment in health IT: Heading down the wrong road. Editorial by Bill Pascal

• Information Technology was a top-of-mind issue for delegates attending the CMA annual meeting in Edmonton last week

• Branham Initiates Survey on Hospital Information Technology Investments
  Part of Comprehensive National ICT in Health care Study 
  Branham Group Inc. today announced the launch of a comprehensive national survey of Canadian hospitals to examine current and planned investments in information and communication technologies (ICT). This survey is one component of a major national study currently underway that is examining the impact on ICT in health care service delivery...

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