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Privacy and security for healthcare providers
Privacy is one area that COACH: Canada's Health Informatics Association sees
as vital for health information in computer systems, today and into the future.
Without public confidence, the ability to collect information to provide care will
be seriously hampered.
Recognizing the seriousness of the loss of confidence, COACH developed the
Guidelines for the Protection of Health Information. The Guidelines describe
key security and privacy issues faced by physicians in their practices and other
healthcare organizations and offers guidance to respond to these issues.
Infoway Certification Services expanded
Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) has added diagnostic imaging and drug information systems to its pre-implementation Certification Services. Health information technology vendors can now receive certification for seven classes of technology.
Report indicates that long-term care wait times in Ontario are too long
According to the Ontario Health Quality Council's 2010 Yearly Report, wait times to get into a long-term care home are too long, and have tripled since spring of 2005. For those placed from home, the wait time is over five
months.
Nearly 45% of seniors in residential care live with depression or symptoms of depression
More than two in five (44%) Canadian seniors living in residential care homes are diagnosed with or have symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
eMAR latest example of tools that improve monitoring, care
Registered staff at Bayfield Manor Nursing and Retirement Home currently spend three nights a month manually creating a new medication record for residents.
However, this laborious, paper-laden task is going to disappear with the introduction of the electronic medication administration record (eMAR) at the Kemptville home.