http://www.infoclin.ca/Helping Physicians Practice effectively with eHealth TechnologiesEnTue, 26 Mar 2013 23:12:27 -0400Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:12:27 -0400http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-signs-contract-with-hamilton-family-health-team/12th February 2007- Hamilton Family Health Team Family Health Teams are a key piece of the Ontario provincial government's plan to build a health care system that promotes good health, reduces wait times and improves access to care.  In Family Health Teams, family doctors work with other health care professionals such as nurse practitioners, nurses, mental health counsellors, dietitians and pharmacists to see more patients and to keep them healthy. InfoClin is helping the Hamilton Family Health Team meet its goals by helping physicians use electronic medical record technology more effectively.  InfoClin is helping spread best practices amongst physicians and helping physicians use their technology to track patients and improve the care of patients with chronic diseases.   Family Health Teams are an important part of changing both the health care system and the way people think about health care.  Family Health Teams will focus more on preventing illness and promoting health.  They will look at the best ways to manage chronic illnesses such as diabetes and depression.  Family Health Teams will provide care that is more accessible and comprehensive.  They will give patients the opportunity to be more involved in making decisions about their own health.   Since April, 2005, the Ontario government has approved 150 Family Health Teams across the province. The Hamilton Family Health Team is the largest, serving approximately 250,000 people and was built on the "platform of the H-W HSO Mental Health and Nutrition Programme. The Hamilton Family Health Team includes: 113 family doctors 76 nurses and nurse practitioners 16 dietitians 56 mental health counsellors 17 psychiatrists 6 pharmacists joining soon The Hamilton Family Health Team serves approximately 250,000 people.  It is the largest of the 150 approved Family Health Teams in Ontario.  The services provided by the Hamilton Family Health Team are free of charge to patients.   How can the Hamilton Family Health Team help patients get healthy and stay healthy?  by sharing accurate, up-to-date information about the best ways to prevent disease and promote health  by looking at risk factors and offering appropriate screening and follow-up  by detecting and addressing health (including mental health) problems earlier, when care is more effective and less costly  by increasing the range of health conditions that can be assessed and treated in the family doctors office, the place where most patients first seek care  by offering support and strategies to better manage chronic illnesses like diabetes, depression and asthma  by working with patients and their families to "navigate the health care system so that care is better co-ordinated   How can this improve the health care system? by helping doctors and other members of the team use their time more effectively, so practices can provide high-quality care to more patients  by increasing access to care through extended hours and Telephone Health Advisory Services to improve continuity of care and help ease the strain on emergency services  by providing the supports family doctors need in order to be able to accept new patients, so more people will have a family doctor  by building partnerships between different parts of the health care system, for example, between family doctors and community organizations such as hospitals and CCACs, so services are better co-ordinated across the system  by making the system more flexible, so each community can tailor services to meet their specific needs  by using health care dollars as efficiently as possible The Hamilton Family Health Team currently includes four programs: Mental Health, Nutrition, Nursing and Pharmacy.  A number of other programs are in the planning stages.  In each program, health care professionals with special training, skills and experience work with family doctors to provide care to patients and their families.     For example, registered dietitians are experts in the area of diet and nutrition.  Working with the family doctor, they can play an important role in preventing, assessing and treating conditions where diet is a factor such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity.    Pharmacists are experts in the area of prescription and non-prescription drugs.  In collaboration with the family doctor, they can help patients to better monitor and prevent side effects and adverse drug reactions and interactions. The Hamilton Family Health Team also has several pilot projects underway.  These include a child & youth mental health pilot, a substance abuse/addictions pilot and a peer support pilot.  Peer support looks at how people living with an illness (in this case, diabetes or depression) might benefit from being matched with a peer support worker who has the same illness.  The peer support workers receive special training from the Hamilton Family Health Team.  They can share experiences and provide support and advice.  Other pilot projects are currently being developed.Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-signs-contract-with-hamilton-family-health-team/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-signs-contract-with-heart-and-stroke-foundation-of-ontario/13th February 2007- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario     4/4/2006 Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (HSFO) continues to invest in the High Blood Pressure Strategy - an ongoing initiative to dramatically reduce the impact of hypertension - a major, often silent, risk factor for heart disease and stroke.   A substantial portion of this Strategy focuses on primary care provider management initiatives, including diagnosis, treatment and control of high blood pressure, strengthening interprofessional collaboration and supporting provider to patient interactions to better enable self-management. InfoClin is assisting the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario roll out its High Blood Pressure strategy into physician offices which use electronic medical records.  InfoClin's unique expertise in primary care and electronic medical records allowed the Heart and Stroke Foundation get its High Blood Pressure reduction program rolled out into 10 Family Health Teams in Ontario in record time.   Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Vision To pave the way towards optimal blood pressure management that will result in a dramatic improvement in the future health of Canadians.   Background High blood pressure is the number one modifiable risk factor for stroke and heart attacks. Based on the Canadian Heart Health Survey of 1992, it affects nearly 22% (about five million) of adult Canadians and 18% of Ontarians. Among those afflicted with hypertension in Ontario, the statistics are alarming: 28% are treated and controlled 19% are treated and not controlled 19% are not treated and therefore not controlled A staggering 35% of those with hypertension are unaware of their condition High Blood Pressure Strategy Comprehensive 5-year plan that focuses on the three critical areas with the greatest potential for significant, long-term impact: Improving the management of hypertension by primary care providers, including doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Investigation of emerging research issues in hypertension Study on the prevalence of hypertension in Ontario, with geographic and key ethnic group drill down Provider Management Initiative An innovative, inter-disciplinary approach to health care providers working in collaboration with key partners (OCFP, OPA, RNAO) Goal: Optimal treatment and control of hypertension for Ontarians Objectives: Improved provider practices in the diagnosis, treatment and control of hypertension in patients. As well as Improved patient awareness, education and self-management New educational opportunities that are designed to enhance physician, pharmacist and nursing approaches to high blood pressure detection and management (eg: educational sessions, toolkits, etc) Action to address communication challenges between health care providers Efforts to improve patient-provider interactions (including new patient resources where required) and patient adherence and self-management Development of nursing best practice guidelines The initial phase, partially funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, ends in June 2006. It includes 3 demonstration sites (Huntsville, Kingston and Toronto) that have worked with HSFO to test and refine the toolkit The RNAO-HSFO nursing best practice guideline, Nursing Mangement of Hypertension was developed and launched in October 2005, as part of the MOHLTC funded initiative The ToolKit involves interdisciplinary healthcare provider workshops BpTRUs, automated office blood pressure monitors practice audit reports High Blood Pressure Flowsheet designed to capture key data elements and integrate the 5As into practice Rx Dx scripts Lifestyle Counselling Sheets Patient-Provider Partnership Agreements Blood Pressure Action Plan (BPAP), an e-health tool developed with MOHLTC support Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-signs-contract-with-heart-and-stroke-foundation-of-ontario/http://www.infoclin.ca/best-practices-in-emr-implementation-workshop-at-e-health-conference/30th April 2007- InfoClin presented a workshop at the e-Health Conference in Quebec City (www.e-healthconference.com) on Sunday May 27, 2007.  Workshop attendees learned about the latest research on EMR implementations, including an innovative framework for increasing the success of EMR implementations.  The workshop was a pragmatic mix of theory and practice in an interactive forum, allowing participants to learn and share in an open, collaborative environment. Join us at the e-Health Conference and learn the latest best practices in EMR implementation!Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/best-practices-in-emr-implementation-workshop-at-e-health-conference/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-and-canadianemr-partner-to-create-emr-selection-site-for-canadian-physicians/30th April 2007- InfoClin and CanadianEMR (www.canadianemr.ca) have joined forces to create a new website for Canadian physicians.  This unique site will assist physicians in selecting an electronic medical record for their practice.  Physicians have difficulty finding credible information to allow them to compare electronic medical record systems.  This leads to long search times for physicians and long sales cycles for vendors.    InfoClin is bringing its unique know-how of primary care and information technology to this project.  The main design work for the new site was provided by InfoClin.   CanadianEMR is the premier site for credible news and information on electronic medical records for physicians.  CanadianEMR provides an interactive forum for physicians to share their experiences and knowledge of EMR with each other.   The CanadianEMR EMR Comparison and 5-star rating program will allow physicians to get access to clear and comparable information from vendors and fellow physicians who have implemented EMRs in their practices.  The EMR comparison site will allow physicians to find EMRs that fit their practice profile and their personal interests.  The intended outcome is to speed up the search for EMRs and increase the success of EMR implementations by ensuring physicians get the right EMR for their practice.Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-and-canadianemr-partner-to-create-emr-selection-site-for-canadian-physicians/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-signs-agreement-with-figp-software-to-resell-p-prompt/30th April 2007- P-PROMPT Software and Service.   InfoClin is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with FigP Software of Hamilton Ontario to resell its P-PROMPT software and service.  P-PROMPT was developed and tested at McMaster University and was designed to help family physicians take better care of their patients.  P-PROMPT communicates with Cancer Care Ontario and the Ministry of Health to provide up to date information to physicians on the health of their patients.  The software service helps family physicians track and recall patients who need important disease prevention and chronic disease treatment.   Now Ontario physicians who were not part of the original study can benefit from the use of P-PROMPT.Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-signs-agreement-with-figp-software-to-resell-p-prompt/http://www.infoclin.ca/p-prompt-makes-headlines/2nd August 2007- P-PROMPT was recently covered in an article in the July 2007 issue of Technology for Doctors (http://www.canhealth.com/doctors.html).  The article highlights how P-PROMPT works, the key benefits and cost of the technology.    P-PROMPT helps physicians provide significantly better care to their patients who need preventive and chronic disease care.  Physicians can increase their revenues significantly by using P-PROMPT.Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/p-prompt-makes-headlines/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-and-doctors-services-partner-to-promote-p-prompt/3th September 2007 - Doctors Services (http://www.doctorsservices.ca/), a company specializing in helping physicians collect Block Fees, will now be promoting P-PROMPT as well.  This partnership provides physicians with additional benefits while interacting with fewer vendors --saving precious time that can be spend in patient care. Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-and-doctors-services-partner-to-promote-p-prompt/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-and-canadianemr-in-the-news/7th October 2007 - The InfoClin and CanadianEMR partnership is making headlines again.  A recent article in the National Review of Medicine magazine show-cased the new CanadianEMR website that was in part designed by InfoClin CEO, Dr. Karim Keshavjee.Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-and-canadianemr-in-the-news/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-presenting-at-electronic-health-record-conference/16th October 2007 - Dr. Karim Keshavjee, InfoClin CEO, will be presenting the latest findings on EMR implementation and future directions in primary care informatics at the Electronic Health Record Conference on Nov 27, 2007.  Come find out the key challenges faced by primary care physicians as they roll out chronic disease management initiatives in Ontario and how they are overcoming them.   Dr. Keshavjee will present findings from recent work done with the Hamilton Family Health Team and with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario's Hypertension Management Initiative which has been rolled out to over 10 Family Health Teams in Ontario.Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-presenting-at-electronic-health-record-conference/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-exhibiting-at-ontario-college-of-family-practice-annual-scientific-assembly/17th October 2007 - InfoClin will be at booth #9 at the OCFP meeting from Nov 14 to 17, 2007.  Come find out why P-PROMPT won the Minister of Health's award for innovation in health care technology.  P-PROMPT is an evidence-based, innovative technology that helps physicians track and follow-up on patients who need preventive and chronic disease care.  You too can maximize care and maximize revenue.  Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-exhibiting-at-ontario-college-of-family-practice-annual-scientific-assembly/http://www.infoclin.ca/emr-comparison-engine-launched-at-canadianemr/29th October 2007 - CanadianEMR has been working all summer to get an EMR comparison site up and running.  The new site has been extensively tested and has attracted 10 key EMR vendors in the Canadian market space.  You can check it out at http://www.canadianemr.ca/.  InfoClin is a key partner in the site. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/emr-comparison-engine-launched-at-canadianemr/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-exhibit-at-ottawa-academy-of-medicine/25th January 2008 - InfoClin exhibits the P-PROMPT chronic disease registry system at the Ottawa Academy of Medicine.  P-PROMPT is evidence-based, innovative technology that helps physicians track and follow-up on patients who need preventive and chronic disease care.  Visit www.pprompt.com to learn more about this award winning technology.Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-exhibit-at-ottawa-academy-of-medicine/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-assists-petawawa-centennial-community-fht-to-select-an-emr-in-record-time/18th April 2008 - The Petawawa Centennial Community Family Health Team (PCFHT) selects InfoClin to provide practice management, change management, and electronic medical record (EMR) selection services.  InfoClin performs a site assessment and completes the EMR selection with PCFHT in just 4 months, beating the industry average of 18 to 24 months by using a streamlined EMR vendor evaluation and procurement process.   The streamlined process uses proven tools and methodologies developed over the last 12 years in collaboration with McMaster University.Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-assists-petawawa-centennial-community-fht-to-select-an-emr-in-record-time/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-presenting-at-ehealth-conference-on-peer-to-peer-network-in-hamilton/7th May 2008 - InfoClin is working with the Hamilton Family Health Team (HFHT) to train Super Users to help disseminate best practices for using electronic medical records.  InfoClin has trained approximately 15 Super Users who are sharing EMR best practices with their colleagues.   The presentation provides details on how the Super User training program works with EMR use best practices developed by InfoClin.  Lessons learned and next steps are also shared.  http://www.e-healthconference.com/physician_path.htmWed, 07 May 2008 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-presenting-at-ehealth-conference-on-peer-to-peer-network-in-hamilton/http://www.infoclin.ca/dr-karim-keshavjee-presenting-at-family-medicine-forum-2008/12th September 2008 - Dr. Karim Keshavjee, CEO of InfoClin Inc, will be presenting two workshops at Family Medicine Forum 2008 in Toronto.    Best Practices in EMR Implementation will show physicians how to standardize data in their EMR, how to clean up dirty data which may be preventing them from getting lists of patients with a particular disease and how to maintain data discipline so that clean data is available in the EMR on an on-going basis.   Evidence-base E-Health Tools will summarize the latest evidence behind a variety of e-health tools.  The workshop will discuss electronic medical records (EMRs), the upcoming electronic health record (EHRs), chronic disease management tools, disease registry tools, reminder systems and clinical decision support tools.   Plan to attend and get up to date on the latest evidence on e-health and on how to get the most out of your EMR.Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/dr-karim-keshavjee-presenting-at-family-medicine-forum-2008/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-presenting-at-information-technology-and-communications-in-healthcare-itch-conference-in-victoria-feb-2009/ 16th September 2008 - Dr. Karim Keshavjee, CEO of InfoClin Inc, will be presenting three papers at the Information Technology and Communications in Healthcare (ITCH 2009) conference in Victoria, Feb 19-22, 2009.   1. Failure of Electronic Medical Records in Canada: A Failure of Policy or a Failure of Technology?   This paper builds on previous work completed in the areas of EMR policy analysis[1], EMR implementation theory[2] and research done on EMR uptake[3] to propose a critical pathway for EMR uptake and where policy and technology deployment have gone awry in Canada. The analysis includes a value chain' analysis of EMRs and how EMRs create value for physicians and for society. The EMR policy analysis will critique current EMR implementation policies and point out where failures are occurring in the value chain and how the same mistakes are being repeated across the country. EMR implementation theory and research on EMR uptake will be used to provide insight into where economic drivers and EMR roll out policies have collided to create poorly aligned incentives, opportunities for cheating and an environment that is keen for uptake, but is paradoxically mired in apathy as well-intentioned programs founder on the treacherous shoals of complex ICTs in health care. The analysis will attempt to illustrate that the policy failure in Canada is largely due to a misunderstanding of the dynamics of deploying complex technologies into complex organizational settings, the incentives for doing so and the returns necessary to justify continuing investment. EMR investment and deployment policies have been largely based on an erroneous understanding of the benefits of ICT in health care and how they can be realized. This has led to large of sums of money being expended, but poor or inadequate uptake. The US has recognized the level of the problem and has recently recommended bold steps be taken to overcome these issues[4]. Recommendations for changes in Canadian policy and technology deployment to increase likelihood of EMR implementation success will be made. [1] Keshavjee K. EMR Implementation in Ontario: A position paper to increase EMR implementation in Ontario. Intel of Canada White Paper. July 2007. [2] Kucukyazici B, Keshavjee K, Bosomworth J, Copen J, Lai J. Best practices for Implementing Electronic Health Records and Information Systems. In Human, Social and Organizational Aspects of Health Information Systems [Eds: Kushniruk A and Borycki E]. IGI Global 2008. [3] Wang SJ, Middleton B, Prosser LA, Bardon CG, Spurr CD, Carchidi PJ, Kittler AF, Goldszer RC, Fairchild DG, Sussman AJ, Kuperman GJ, Bates DW. A cost-benefit analysis of electronic medical records in primary care. Am J Med. 2003 Apr 1;114(5):397-403. [4] Nancy M. Lorenzi, Laurie L. Novak, Jacob B. Weiss, Cynthia S. Gadd, and Kim M. Unertl. Crossing the Implementation Chasm: A Proposal for Bold Action. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008; 15: 290-296. 2. Out with the EMR!:   This paper will present a critique of current EMRs and current deficiencies which make them inadequate for medical care. The analysis rests on recent work done to assist physicians manage information in their EMRs for prevention and chronic disease management care. The paper points out how EMRs replicate current paper-based paradigms and get trapped in the inherent inefficiencies of document- and encounter-centric documentation approaches. We will propose an alternative approach to record-keeping that is more congruent with modern information management requirements, which does not get trapped in a document-centric paradigm and yet is also consistent with the legacy encounter-based approaches required for medico-legal purposes.   3. Developing a Chronic Disease Surveillance Network in Canada: Health Informatics Challenges and Proposed Solutions. This paper describes the design of an informatics architecture to extract data from community-based EMRs to a central data repository. Challenges encountered, including un-coded and unstructured data, poor meta-data binding and incomplete data will be described. Approaches to improving data quality when data comes from multiple EMRs, each with a proprietary database, and multiple physicians, each with different charting habits, will be proposed. Improvements to EMR functionality to facilitate data capture will also be proposed. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-presenting-at-information-technology-and-communications-in-healthcare-itch-conference-in-victoria-feb-2009/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-presenting-on-electronic-signatures-at-e-health-conference-2009/1st March 2009 - Why is it taking so long to select an electronic signature technology for e-prescribing in Canada? Dr. Karim Keshavjee is presenting an analysis on electronic signatures for electronic prescriptions at the E-health 2009 Conference in Quebec City.  Come find out why signatures on prescriptions are different than signatures on other documents and what properties an electronic signature will require to successfully replace an ink signature.  Dr. Keshavjee will discuss various e-signature products and how they meet or fail to meet the requirements for signature on an electronic prescription. Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-presenting-on-electronic-signatures-at-e-health-conference-2009/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-work-being-presented-at-ahrq-conference-for-practice-based-research-networks-in-bethesda-maryland-on-jun-24-2009/25th March 2009-  Dr. Karim Keshavjee will be co-presenting a Keynote Presentation on the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's conference for Primary Care Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs).  Preliminary findings from a feasibility study conducting in 2008 will be presented.  Find out more about CPCSSN. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-work-being-presented-at-ahrq-conference-for-practice-based-research-networks-in-bethesda-maryland-on-jun-24-2009/http://www.infoclin.ca/dr-karim-keshavjee-presenting-at-canadian-association-of-health-services-and-policy-research-in-calgary-alberta-may-14-2009/25th March 2009 - InfoClin CEO, Dr. Karim Keshavjee, will be presenting findings of a study to assess the feasibility of developing a Canadian chronic disease surveillance network at the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research conference being held from May 11-14, 2009 in Calgary Alberta.  The presentation will cover how to take data collected in the course of clinical documentation and make it usable for chronic disease surveillance.  A variety of strategies for improving the utility of clinical data for secondary purposes will be presented.  Policy implications for the pan-Canadian electronic health record (EHR) and design implications for electronic medical records (EMR) will be discussed.  Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/dr-karim-keshavjee-presenting-at-canadian-association-of-health-services-and-policy-research-in-calgary-alberta-may-14-2009/http://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-work-being-presented-at-ahrq-conference/29th March 2009 - Dr. Karim Keshavjee will be co-presenting a Keynote Presentation on the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's conference for Primary Care Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs). Preliminary findings from a feasibility study conducting in 2008 will be presented. Find out more about CPCSSN.Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/infoclin-work-being-presented-at-ahrq-conference/http://www.infoclin.ca/what-went-wrong-at-ehealth-ontario/15 Apr 2010 - What went wrong at eHealth Ontario?  This opinion editorial published in the Canadian Health Technology magazine provides some answers and suggests some ways of approaching a complex issue.  Click here to download.Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/what-went-wrong-at-ehealth-ontario/http://www.infoclin.ca/policies-to-empower-consumer-use-of-phr/11th February 2011 - An article by Joe Whitney and Dr. Karim Keshavjee on policies to enable the wider penetration of personal health records was published in the February 2011 issue of Canadian Healthcare Technology magazine. A copy of the paper is available by clicking here. Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.infoclin.ca/policies-to-empower-consumer-use-of-phr/http://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-ehealth-conference-in-toronto-jun-1-2011/1st March 2011 - InfoClin will be presenting on Design of a Canadian Primary Care Drug Safety and Effectiveness Research Network: A Systematic Review of  Architecture Choice at the eHealth Conference being held in Toronto from May 29 to Jun 1, 2011.  The paper discusses the pros and cons of distributed and centralized data architectures for protecting privacy and conducting advanced comparative effectiveness drug studies using electronic medical record, pharmacy and hospital data.  The paper also points out areas of uncertainty and risk and how to explore them to bring greater certainty to a complex area of research.Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-ehealth-conference-in-toronto-jun-1-2011/http://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-cadth-conference-vancouver-bc/4th April 2011 - The CPCSSN project (Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network) presented a paper on providing audit and feedback to participating physicians at the CADTH Conference in Vancouver.  The paper highlights the problems physicians have with using electronic medical records for chronic disease management and the benefits of participating in CPCSSN.  CPCSSN has developed a process for extracting data from multiple EMRs.  The data is cleaned, coded, de-identified and transformed into a standard format so that it can be analyzed quickly and easily.  Participating physicians get quarterly reports on their own data.  Over 200 physicians currently participate in CPCSSN.   The paper is available here.Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-cadth-conference-vancouver-bc/http://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-afhto-toronto-ontario/Oct 16, 2012 - InfoClin presented two posters at the recent Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO) conference in Toronto.  One poster compared two methods of data cleaning in EMRs and the other poster described how InfoClin converted a paper-based Well-baby record into an electronic version and tested it in 2 different EMRs in 20 provider practices.  InfoClin continues to be a thought leader in improving data quality in EMRs. Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-afhto-toronto-ontario/http://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-family-medicine-forum-toronto-canada/Nov 14, 2012 - InfoClin presented a poster on approaches to improving data quality in EMRs and presented an oral presentation on how to access CPCSSN data for conducting research in primary care practices.  CPCSSN is now up to 368 physicians in 8 provinces using 9 different EMR systems.  Data is extracted, standardized, cleaned, re-coded, de-identified and loaded into a central data repository each quarter for research and surveillance.  Find out more at www.cpcssn.ca. Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-family-medicine-forum-toronto-canada/http://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-itch-2013-victoria-bc/Dec 19, 2012 - InfoClin is please to announce that Dr. Karim Keshavjee will be presenting at the ITCH 2013 Conference in Victoria from Feb 21-23, 2013.  The title of Dr. Keshavjee's paper is "The Use of Discrete-Event Simulation Modeling to Compare Handwritten and Electronic Prescribing Systems".  The paper is co-authored by Ahmad Ghany, MSc, Craig Kuziemsky, PhD and Karim Vassanji, DDS.  The paper describes a method by which implementers of complex technologies can model and simulate implementation of the technology before it is built. The model can help predict issues with a new technology before they arise and allow implementers to generate solutions to problems before they arise. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.infoclin.ca/presentation-at-itch-2013-victoria-bc/http://www.infoclin.ca/4-abstracts-accepted-to-ehealth-conference/Feb 16, 2013 - InfoClin has 4 abstracts accepted to the eHealth Conference which will be held in Ottawa from May 26-29, 2013.  Dr. Keshavjee will be giving a TEC talk on Upgrading Canada's EMR Infrastructure for faster and easier data analysis.  Three e-posters will provide attendees with more information on projects that InfoClin is involved in, including Canada's chronic disease surveillance network (CPCSSN) now at over 450 physicians; Creating an enabling environment for health care providers to prescribe mobile apps to their patients for self-management and using predictive analytics to improve patient care at the clinic level.  Join us at the eHealth conference to learn more about the exciting projects InfoClin is a part of. Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/4-abstracts-accepted-to-ehealth-conference/http://www.infoclin.ca/several-new-papers-published/Mar 12, 2013 - InfoClin has recently co-authored several papers on EMRs.  Most of them are freely available on the web.  You can get the list here.  Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.infoclin.ca/several-new-papers-published/