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Need help justifying the expense to attend the Infoway Partnership Conference? We want to make the approval process for attending hassle-free, so we have prepared a letter template you can download, edit and use to rationalize your trip or to help guide your conversation.

A new pan-Canadian study shows that the growing use of connected health information in Canada is producing significant financial and time savings benefits for patients, our health system and our economy.

Infoway is pleased to announce our collaboration with SNOMED International on SNOMED CT Expo 2018, being held October 18-19 in Vancouver. This event brings together government officials, health IT professionals, health practitioners, researchers, academics and vendors from around the world. The call for abstracts is now open, with submissions due by April 10. Registration will open soon.

Infoway has an exciting line-up of speakers that you definitely won't want to miss. This year's conference will offer proactive top-quality learning and an opportunity to network with organizations and people that value quality health information as well as effective integrated system solutions.

Not sure if you should care about health informatics standards, or how they might affect you? Check out our webinar series to learn more.

If you have a newsworthy and relevant FHIR story you would like to share, submit your general abstract description for a chance to present it to a live audience.

Make sure to complete your early bird registration for the 2018 e-Health Conference by February 28, 2018. 

Infoway is pleased to report that Thorold, ON is the latest location to electronically transmit prescriptions using PrescribeIT^TM, Canada’s national e-prescribing service – marking another step forward in PrescribeIT’s provincial roll out. PrescribeIT^TM will continue to launch in additional communities in Ontario as well as other provinces and territories in 2018.

Read the news release and visit PrescribeIT.ca to learn more. 

In supporting Canadian health care and our many clinicians, regions, hospitals, provincial agencies and ministries and our vendor and consultant communities, this Patient Summary Standards Set grows our collective efforts to improve efficiency, coordination and safe information exchange and be a catalyst and leader in digital health.

This catalog of globally developed and accepted standards is available to the many clinicians, health facilities and organizations, government health ministries, provincial and national health agencies, digital health vendors and consultants that build, implement, operate or support the digital solutions for our health data recording, collection, storage, and exchange.