Digital Health News

Michelle Cousins (pictured right) gave two presentations on the connecting South West Ontario (cSWO) Program’s Primary Care Data Sharing Program (PCDs) proof of concept, which is exploring the feasibility of sharing data from primary care electronic medical records (EMRs) with other providers in the patient’s circle of care. For an update on recently PCDS activities, take a look at the latest cSWO update.

Lori-Anne Huebner (pictured right) gave a poster presentation on “A Model of Practice to Support Vendor Procurement” – the poster is available here, and takes a look at the innovation procurement model used by our System Coordinated Access (SCA) Program to find a vendor capable of building an electronic referral (eReferral) solution that could meet a number of 

Danika Walden also presented on the innovative methodologies used to procure a technology solution for Virtual Visits in Waterloo Wellington, which is currently in the midst of a year-long proof of concept.

And finally, Ted Alexander (pictured left) – our Vice-President of Partnerships & Clinical Innovations – gave a talk on the unique digital health service bundle that we offer, as our region’s one-stop resource for ehealth tools and services .

Overall, we were delighted to be able to participate and share updates on the many exciting ehealth initiatives we’re currently supporting – and we’re already looking forward to next year’s event!