Tag: Healthcare
PHI: How hospitals can be better stewards
Canadian hospitals still rely heavily on traditional fax machines when sending and receiving sensitive patient data.
According to a study by TELUS Health, two-thirds of Canad... Read more
How our hospitals eliminated prescription errors
Prescription errors have a huge impact on Canadian hospitals and patients.
In fact, the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) revealed that 1 in 18 hospital patient... Read more
5 proven ways to make your patient data more secure
Canadian healthcare organisations face a growing number of security threats.
For example, hackers recently breached an Ontario home care . They stole records that contained t... Read more
Grey Bruce Health Services – Improving medication order workflows for efficient ...
The healthcare industry has one of the most important parts to play in the everyday life of ordinary people. People expect to have healthy and long lives that give them the ti... Read more
Why in-hospital pharmacies should be automated
Adverse drug events can be prevented with this low-cost improvement to existing in-hospital infrastructure.
Despite the amount of focus on electronic health records (EHRs) to... Read more
Road to digital health in your organisation
Michael Burgoyne, National Healthcare Sales Lead at Ricoh Canada answers questions on digital health trends, the unfulfilled promise of CPOE, and how hospitals should avoid tr... Read more
Healthcare clinics: Reduce your reliance on paper
Originally posted on Nuance What’s Next Feb. 15, 2017
Many hospitals, clinics & healthcare organisations today talk about going paperless. Yet even advanced hospit... Read more
Less paper: Benefits for continuum of care
Contrary to popular belief, even hospitals with electronic health records (EHRs) have information silos—and lots of paper in those information silos.
Just think about all of ... Read more