(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. | (2/5/2007) 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: | (1/24/2007) Four vendors on Tuesday demonstrated electronic health records (EHR) and showed off their prototypes to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' American Health Information Community (AHIC) advisory board. | (1/23/2007) Efforts to increase telework in the federal government have a long way to go. Just 35 percent of federal managers today think their agencies support telework, according to results of a survey conducted by Telework Exchange and Federal Managers Association and released Monday. | (1/18/2007) Deploying a single customer relationship management (CRM) system has enabled a Canadian health benefits provider to enhance client services, more than triple its sales, and streamline operations. | (1/17/2007) Doctors in the U.S. will have access to free, Web-based electronic medicine prescribing software within a month, a group of health care providers and technology vendors announced Tuesday. | (1/8/2007) In an effort to speed the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) the U.S. federal government modified anti-kickback laws, but many hospitals still fear providing EMR technology to docs at cut-rate prices. | (12/15/2006) The Canadian healthcare system is enthusiastically embracing e-health, but widespread implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) is still several years away, according to a study by an Ottawa-based health consultancy. | (12/12/2006) Ontario's Integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) is being heralded as hugely successful in co-ordinating previously disparate ways of controlling epidemic outbreaks, but the system may be overlooking thousands within the province's Aboriginal community. | (12/12/2006) Many nurses practise the way they have always practised, the way they learned to practise, and they continue to do necessary healthcare procedures to the best of their ability and to the best of their knowledge. |
  | |  | | 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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