Cross-country Check-up on EMR. Some Provinces Doing Better than Others

In a very interesting and comprehensive review of the state of EMR adoption across Canada, Technology for Doctors explores the EMR market and progress to date:

Cross-country check-up: Physician information technology across Canada is very much a work in progress.  

Anchored by electronic medical record systems, and ultimately hooked or yet to be hooked into overarching patient-based electronic health records, physician IT is very much a product of the provincial and territorial governments, which most directly control the purse strings for health-related issues. But, travel across the country, and you’ll see EMR systems, and accompanying tools that address chronic disease management, drug prescriptions and laboratory tests, along with digital imaging results. We examine the health of IT initiatives in each of Canada’s provinces and territories. Some are doing much better than others. Click on the link to read the full article: Technology for Doctors.

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