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August 7, 2019 (Toronto) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Mustimuhw Information Solutions Inc. (MIS) announced today that the Mustimuhw Community Electronic Medical Record (Mustimuhw cEMR) v12.01.05 solution has achieved Infoway Certification under the 2017 Edition of pre-implementation certification requirements.

June 13, 2019 (Toronto) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Portal724 announced today that the Portal724 remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution has achieved Infoway Certification under the 2017 Edition of pre-implementation certification requirements.

June 5, 2019 (Toronto) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Intrahealth Canada Limited (Intrahealth), an electronic medical record (EMR) provider, bringing the total number of PrescribeIT^® EMR vendors to 11.

March 5, 2019 (Toronto) — PrescribeIT^® is well on its way to becoming Canada’s national e-prescribing service as more jurisdictions, vendors and retailers have come on board and have committed to making prescribing easier and more convenient for patients and clinicians.

February 28, 2019 (Toronto) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) invites leading health IT companies to respond to the newly launched Request for Proposal (RFP) to solicit technology and services related to Identity, Access and Consent, for Infoway’s ACCESS Gateway, a technology service that enables data sharing and the delivery of digital health services to Canadians.

December 18, 2018 (Toronto) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and TELUS Health announced today that two TELUS Health solutions have achieved Infoway’s certification under the 2017 Edition of pre-implementation certification requirements

Saint John is the First Community in Province to use PrescribeIT^®

December 11, 2018 (Toronto) — Citizens of New Brunswick are well on their way to experiencing better health outcomes with the recent launch of PrescribeIT^®, Canada’s national e-prescribing service, in Saint John.

December 10, 2018 (Toronto) – Physician access to connected health information in Canada is now high, yet Canadians’ access to virtual care services is limited, according to a new study conducted by Canada Health Infoway (Infoway).

November 27, 2018 (Toronto) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Intrahealth Canada Limited announced today that Intrahealth Canada, a global software and associated services company, has achieved Infoway’s certification under the 2017 Edition of pre-implementation certification requirements.

November 14, 2018 (Montreal) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) today announced the launch of ACCESS 2022, a movement to promote a future where all Canadians have access to their health information through the availability and use of digital health tools and services, which will empower patients and improve health outcomes.

Celebrating Canadians, clinicians and organizations advancing digital health

November 8, 2018 (Toronto) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) is inviting Canadians to join us as we celebrate how digital health is transforming health care in Canada.

September 20, 2018 (Toronto) — One year ago, the first prescription was transmitted from a doctor to a pharmacist through PrescribeIT^TM, Canada’s national e-prescribing service.

August 22, 2018 (Toronto) — More than four million Canadians lose or damage their paper prescriptions each year, resulting in return trips to the doctor’s office or prescriptions that go unfilled. The cost is high in terms of lost productivity, extra travel and time spent filling prescriptions, and most importantly, the potential for adverse health events due to medications that aren’t taken at all.

August 2, 2018 (Toronto) — Canadians increasingly want access to digital health services, but there is a significant gap between this desire and their ability to access various services online.

July 16, 2018 (Toronto) — Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) today released a request for expressions of interest (REOI) inviting interested parties to demonstrate how they might contribute to the development and/or operation of ACCESS Gateway (Gateway), an ACCESS Health initiative.

Personal health records and other e-services provide $106 to $134 million a year in value to the health care system

July 12, 2018 (Toronto) — Both Canadians and the health care system benefit when patients can access their personal health records (PHRs) online and use digital health e-services, according to a new study conducted by SRDC (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) for Canada Health Infoway.

July 10, 2018 (Toronto) — Today, Canada’s federal Minister of Health, the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor announced ACCESS Atlantic, a bold initiative that will make it quicker and easier to access health services in Atlantic Canada.

May 10, 2018 (Toronto) – Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and Kids Help Phone have formed a partnership to help expand the reach of Crisis Text Line powered by Kids Help Phone.

April 9, 2018 (Toronto) – Today, Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) and OntarioMD announced the results of their collaborative effort to align their respective certification programs to better serve the shared community of electronic medical record (EMR) vendors in Ontario.