(2/19/2007) Ontario's e-health agency Smart Systems for Health has announced William Albino as its new CEO. Albino's appointment follows a highly critical review by Deloitte and Touche that cites a long list of challenges and shortcomings facing SSHA. | (2/14/2007) Michael Hurst, the Industry Canada employee at the centre of an e-mail controversy in Yellowknife, may get to keep his government job for the price of 75 hours' community service. | (2/13/2007) A New York State senator hopes to introduce legislation that will make using an iPod on crosswalks illegal, according to news reports. | (2/8/2007) Canadian physicians are tired of waiting for progress on wait-times. Doctors have given health ministries across the country a poor grade for their collective efforts and predicted the healthcare system would deteriorate over the next five years, according to a survey by the Canadian Medial Association (CMA). | (2/8/2007) Canada Health Infoway Inc. is working with the country's 13 provinces and territories to integrate six applications, or key modules, into one portal for public health surveillance and information management. Jeffrey Betts, a business development manager for systems integrator IBM Canada Ltd., offers a walkthrough of the various components: | (2/5/2007) During the planning and development of an electronic health record (EHR) what you are talking about and doing is fundamentally putting information out there for others to, at some point in time, pull from. | (2/5/2007) A highly critical review of Ontario's e-health agency, Smart Systems for Health, will serve as its guide to becoming a best practices IT organization within a few years, says its chairman and acting CEO. | (2/5/2007) Effective information management is critical to track the spread of infectious disease, especially when saving time means saving lives. Quick response is the key to minimizing the impact of the next pandemic. | (2/5/2007) "The implementation is largely a process of installing the software once, but it also entails a change management process; it means getting the system's users trained and the data converted." | (2/5/2007) Sarah Kramer is CIO and vice-president of Cancer Care Ontario. At the same time, she is working closely with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to improve its strategy around reducing wait-times. Kramer spoke with InterGovWorld.com senior writer Lisa Williams about what's being accomplished on both fronts, what lies ahead, and how Ontario is both a leader and a laggard when it comes to e-health. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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