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An influx of cash would help stabilize rural health systems, but the program’s focus on technology may leave other major issues unaddressed.
Answering personal questions at the doctor’s office can help researchers recognize health problems and find effective interventions.
Not all examples of flawed medical records relate to individual human error. Here’s what else can go wrong.
If it can happen to a future queen, it can happen to you. Maybe it already has.
Canada has spent billions on health-care software that does not even communicate province to province. Free and open-source software would be a technically superior and far less expensive option.
There are many uses for digital systems that are not centrally controlled and that allow large numbers of people to participate securely, even if they don’t all know and trust each other.
In health care crises, researchers can avoid waiting for clinical trial results by using data from health care systems to analyze the effectiveness of treatments for COVID-19 and other illnesses.
Digital health can improve care, but in Ontario, health data are still fragmented, despite billions of dollars spent over the last two decades to enable fast and secure exchange of health information.
A project involving tens of millions of patient records poses ethical issues, even though patients could ultimately gain. Here’s why privacy concerns are a hurdle.
Know the difference between an EMR, EHR and PHR? Our digital data expert sets the record straight.
Past upgrades to the state’s medical record system have cost tremendous amounts of money, and on at least one occasion, forced clinicians to revert to paper-based methods.
Doctor depression, burnout and suicide have been rising for some time, and overwork was considered the norm. A health care lawyer explains why the legal and regulatory systems must intervene.
Electronic medical records were supposed to improve health care. Are they doing that? Two doctors describe the problems.
If you’re opting out of My Health Records, you’re opting in to “business as usual”. Here’s what the current system looks like.
Medicine leads the professions in suicides. Fixing the physician suicide problem requires a re-examination of medicine’s “right stuff.”
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