(9/27/2006) Ontario's Integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) is being heralded as hugely successful in coordinating the province's previously disparate outbreak reporting mechanisms. | (9/26/2006) Film-based X-rays are quickly disappearing in England, as its health care facilities switch to a digital system that can send images of broken bones and fractured ribs over a network instantly to different clinics. | (9/22/2006) | (9/15/2006) If an outbreak like SARS struck again, a new information system may help protect the Canadian public in a faster, more coordinated manner. | (9/8/2006) Automated check-in and registration systems, currently being used in the airline and retail industries, have found their way to the healthcare sector and are proving their worth in enhancing patient care | (9/1/2006) An upgrade to Microsoft BizTalk server software has enabled a hospital in Ontario to streamline patient care by improving the management of system errors. For the staff of Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, even a momentary glitch in the facility's information system could mean more than just a minor hindrance. | (8/30/2006) A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms. Moments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu. | (8/30/2006) A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms.
Moments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu. | (8/30/2006) A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms.
Moments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu. | (8/29/2006) Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) staff is set to have full access to critical hospital information systems anytime, anywhere. |
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| | | 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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