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Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, December 2011
... 65% of eligible physicians having adopted an EMR in their practice in British Columbia, several trends are becoming ... are heavily weighted toward non-urban physicians in group practice, and particularly physicians in communities that have established divisions of family practice and EMR communities of practice. Urban solo and ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, January/February 2011
... half of the 5500 eligible BC physicians in community-based practice have now adopted an EMR through the support of PITO ... Notably, the adoption rate among large full-service family practice clinics (six or more physicians in group practice) has reached 90%, and almost 75% among all clinics ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, April 2011
... than 14 BC communities have developed EMR communities of practice (CoPs). CoPs bring together GPs and specialists in a ... completed the application to form an EMR community of practice in September 2008.  By March 2010, 80% of the CoP ... through joint activities with their new Division of Family Practice and the Practice Support Program (PSP). Salmon Arm ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, March 2010
... Technology Office (PITO) has developed communities of practice (COPs), leading groups of their colleagues who have ... support achieve a higher utilization of the EMR in their practice and are better able to achieve their clinical goals ... close to retirement, and some were just starting their practice and couldn’t afford it. The more I spoke to ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2010
... interface directly to their EMR. Through PITO Community of Practice initiatives, physicians in several BC communities ... secure web browser access to PharmaNet through the Medical Practice Access to PharmaNet (MPAP) program. Medinet delivers ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, July/August 2010
... GPs practise in larger group practices rather than solo practice. Breaking down the EMR adoption statistics in ... in which GPs commonly practise:  • Full-service family practice (FSFP) clinics (which may include an out-of-hours ... clinics, aesthetics clinics, etc.). Full-service family practice Dividing the FSFP practice category further provides ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, December 2009
... and others have led the creation of local Communities of Practice (CoPs) to provide assistance to their colleagues ... where more complex network configurations exist in a practice. • Robust network devices suitable for a medical ... templates. • Specialty-specific communities of practice. • Definition of requirements for surgeons and ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, March 2009
... will be best for you. Dr Andre van Wyk, of Fort Family Practice in Fort Langley, knows you have to both look in ... be easily configured to perform relevant searches in your practice to find gaps in care for diabetics, Pap smears, and ... do not want surprises later. For example, if you are in a practice setting that may require a non-standard pricing ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2009
... (e-referrals). In recent years specialists in private practice have tended to be more mobile than family ... really well and cost effectively through a community-of-practice approach.” Availability of electronic results ... Harries, leader of the South Okanagan EMR Community of Practice, has found that “the specialists in our community ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, July/August 2009
... can save the day. When it came time to open their own practice in Langley in 2003, Drs Leo and Flora Wong, both ... to electronic. Then, in 2007, Dr Young Suh joined the practice. He had worked in a clinic where most of the ... all of Young’s charts. Today the boxes are gone and the practice is again paperless. For Leo, the major advantage of ...