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Get involved and lend your talents to enabling better patient care. Nominations for the HL7 Canada Chair is open until June 22, 2018.

In collaboration with the Social Research Demonstration and Corporation (SRDC), Infoway recently completed a comprehensive study to estimate the evidence-based value of citizen access to their health information and a set of digital health e-services.

Be sure to check the Terminology Gateway for the latest release of a number of subsets based on the new version of the SNOMED CT Canadian Edition.

Canada Health Infoway and Kids Help Phone have formed a partnership to help expand the reach of Crisis Text Line powered by Kids Help Phone. The text line will soon enable people in crisis to receive help nationwide by texting a short-code to connect with a trained volunteer Crisis Responder.

Greg Price was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and ultimately succumbed to a blood clot. Throughout Greg’s journey, there were a number gaps in his continuity of care leading to delays in treatment, which may have contributed to his untimely passing.

This beginner level session is for anyone interested in learning how the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set will be part of the Infoway PrescribeIT^TM solution to enable the safe and secure electronic ordering of prescription medications in Canada.

This study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, examines the diffusion of the digital self-tracking movement in Canada, where a quarter of all Canadians currently owns a wearable or smart medical device.

With the advent of electronic methods of medication adherence monitoring, this ethical dilemma now involves a new layer of complexity. This paper presents two scenarios encountered in clinical practice that reflect issues occurring regularly in the Canadian healthcare system.

Clinicians, primary health care professionals and informatics specialists who participate will learn about standardized clinical content, electronic sharing and more.

e-Health 2018 has a great line-up of plenary speakers you don’t want to miss, plus many other expert panelists and leading-edge vendors.