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Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2011
... closer to that state. Today, in large full-service family practice clinics across the province we see an adoption rate ... solo or small practices.  For those in solo or small GP practice considering the change to EMR and wondering how it ... that the benefits of EMR can be achieved in any size of practice when the physicians and staff are strongly committed ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD November 2011
... are not sensitive to the antibiotics we like to use. The practice of medicine would drastically change if antibiotics ... which in turn can promote horizontal gene transfer. This practice creates antibiotic resistance genes, which cannot be ...
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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2011
... 5 ] include:  • Naturopathic medicine (whose scope of practice, we are told, “includes all aspects of family and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD January/February 2011
... causes of overweight/obesity (CMAJ 2006 Canadian clinical practice guidelines on the management and prevention of ... Research supports motivational interviewing as best practice to effect change. Motivational interviewing ...
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, 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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Carl Shearer, MD, June 2010
... that it takes up too great a proportion of their limited practice time. We have found that this problem can be solved ...