2016 News Releases

(Toronto) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) closed the Request for Proposal (RFP) for PrescribeIT™, Canada’s new e-prescribing service, on December 12, 2016, concluding the eight-week response period.

(Toronto) – After more than a year of review and extensive stakeholder consultations, Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) announced, today, enhancements to its Certification Services with the release of the 2017 Edition of privacy and security certification...

(Regina) – Digital health has empowered more than 1,100 Saskatchewan citizens to take greater control over their health by providing access to their personal health information securely online through the Citizen Health Information Portal , known as...

Canadians asked to join the conversation during digital health week, November 14-20 (Toronto) – During Digital Health Week (November 14 to 20, 2016), dozens of health care organizations from across Canada want Canadians to join the conversation about...

(Toronto) - Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) invites leading health IT companies to respond to the newly launched Request for Proposal (RFP) for PrescribeIT™, Canada’s new e-prescribing service.

Evaluation to focus on province-wide applicability (Toronto) – The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) is partnering with Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson) to evaluate the impact of a remote telemonitoring solution for patients with chronic...

Switch from paper to digital improving quality, outcomes for patients (Toronto) – Growth in the use of interoperable Electronic Health Records (iEHR) by Canadian doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals is fueling benefits for...

(Toronto) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and the Ontario Lung Association (OLA) announced today that the breathe web application has achieved Infoway’s Consumer Health Application certification.

Clinical perspective to inform planning, support outreach with clinical community (Toronto) – A practising physician with a commitment to collaboration and improving patient care and provider satisfaction has been appointed as Canada Health Infoway’s...

Big White Wall offers peer support to help reduce feelings of isolation – The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) is teaming up with the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores), Lakeridge Health and Women’s College Hospital to...

(Toronto) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) is inviting the digital health community to provide feedback on national privacy and security requirements as part of the final phase of its harmonization project to enhance the value of certification services...

(Halifax) – Doctors and patients in Nova Scotia can now get routine test results and share information through MyHealthNS , a new secure online tool.

( Duncan, BC) — Cowichan Tribes and Mustimuhw Information Solutions today announced a partnership with McKesson Canada’s RelayHealth to improve health care for members of the Cowichan Tribes First Nation. The 18-month pilot project will help improve the...

(Toronto) - A Request for Expression Of Interest (REOI) was issued by Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) today, inviting private sector organizations and the health care industry to demonstrate their interest in assisting in the creation and/or the...

(Gander, NL) - The Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information (NLCHI) has partnered with GE Healthcare to install a province-wide Telepathology Network. The $2.5 million Telepathology Network, jointly funded by the Government of...

Part of Federal Government’s four pillars approach to drug policy (Toronto) – At the recent Charting the Future of Drug Policy in Canada conference, the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, talked about the important role that Infoway’s...

(Toronto) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Health Quality Innovation Collaborative (HQIC), announced today that miDASH patient health portal has achieved Infoway’s Consumer Health Application certification.

$200 million in estimated annual value realized in 2015 (Toronto) – Electronic medical record (EMR) use in ambulatory care, along with complementary technologies, is yielding health system and patient benefits such as improved patient safety, continuity...

(Toronto) – Six teams of clinicians, academics, researchers, epidemiologists and data analysts who relied on existing Canadian data sets to find answers to pressing health care questions will receive their share of awards available as the Data Impact...

Government of Canada allocates $50 million to digital health over two years (Toronto) – Federal funding for digital health will benefit Canadians for generations to come and improve health system efficiency, said Michael Green, President and CEO, Canada...