Digital Health

Projectathons can be considered connectivity test marathons for specific projects. Like athletic marathons, they take planning, dedication, preparation and perseverance to succeed.

We're collaborating with our stakeholders to help ensure the health system is connected, equitable and sustainable. Learn more about our recent Projectathon and why it's an important building block towards connected care.

Help celebrate the World Health Organization’s 75th anniversary and learn more about the public health successes during the last seven decades and the action needed to tackle the health challenges of today — and tomorrow.

Patient partners play an essential role in health system transformation as advisors, collaborators, advocates and more. We recently caught up with four patient partners for a discussion about the perspectives and experiences that patients, families and...

To enable more patients to access their health information electronically, we need to keep collaborating across the health ecosystem to ensure that different parts of the health system can talk to each other.

At the 2022 Infoway Partnership Conference, the digital health community came together to discuss how to help drive digital health forward. Learn more about one of the main themes that emerged.

Digital health improves the patient experience, improves the clinician experience and helps us realize health system efficiencies.

Hear from an Indigenous owned public relations agency about an Indigenous research methodology and learn more about what it means to move forward through reconciliation and relationality.

In this blog post we delve into the role privacy plays in the creation of interoperable health systems. Read it now to find out why privacy considerations are an enabler for health system interoperability, rather than a barrier to it.

Read about Infoway’s achievements during 2021-2022, and our collaborations with governments, health care organizations, clinicians, patients and others to make health care in Canada more digital.

While it’s important interoperable health systems and solutions “speak the same language,” the people using them need common understanding as well. Learn how collaborative activities, like the first pan-Canadian Projectathon, can help.

CIHI and Infoway are co-leading a project that will modernize Canada’s ODT data management and performance reporting systems. Learn how this initiative will improve consistency and quality of ODT data across Canada and expand its use for decision-making.

The theme of World Health Day 2022 is Our Planet, Our Health. As COVID-19 restrictions ease across the country and the promise of spring gives us hope that better days are coming, this year’s World Health Day theme is especially relevant.

Implementing AI is a unique challenge compared to other health care innovations. And so, Infoway has developed the “Toolkit for Implementers of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care.”

Digital Health Week is an annual celebration of the cumulative progress that we have all made in providing a safer, more accessible and efficient health system for patients, families, caregivers and providers.

As the world examines the outcomes of COP26 and the ongoing climate emergency, many of us working in health care are reminded that the health sector itself is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Learn how virtual care can help contribute to...

Join us in celebrating World Standards Day and learn more about the digital health standards that Infoway releases, which provide the technical nuts and bolts that drive interoperability in Canadian health care.

2021 marks Infoway’s 20th anniversary — a significant milestone for our organization. While we have made tremendous progress in digital health over the past 20 years, there is still more work to be done to ensure that Canadians have the health system...

Increasing use of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the introduction of new contact tracing applications and discussions around vaccine passports, raised new and highlighted existing privacy considerations this past year. As the...

The 2020 agreement between SNOMED International and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) is an opportunity to highlight the clinical work of nursing. The ICN is a federation of more than 130 national nurses’ associations worldwide. Under the...