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Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, November 2011
... in British Columbia around 60% of physicians in private practice offices are using an electronic medical record ... for doctors who incorporate this technology into their practice.” Ms Esther Brown, from the town of Oliver in the ... physician’s experience Dr Calder is a member of a group practice at Osoyoos Medical Centre in a town that contains a ...
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, 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 ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2010
... returned to his hometown of Victoria, where he has been in practice ever since. His career has been influenced by John ... best interest of patients, and on the Divisions of Family Practice as well.  It’s going to be very important that we ... solving can be a very rewarding part of professional practice. I think it’s an extension of the advocacy we do ...
Interviews December 2010
... became a certificant of the CFPC in 1982. His scope of practice extends beyond the spectrum of office and hospital ... Columbia, where he teaches medical students, family practice residents, and midwives.  Dr Wilson is highly ... role in helping establish the Vancouver Family Practice Maternity Service (FPMS), a group of dedicated ...
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, 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 ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... from the University of Calgary in 1986. He set up general practice first in Whitecourt, Alberta, moving 1 year later to ... after his move to Chilliwack in 1998—where he remains in practice—he became a Board delegate and has been active in ... variety, so I completed the year, then went into family practice. I felt I had the best of both worlds—I had a year ...
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 ...