Canadian EMR

CanadianEMR is a free, award-winning, resource for all health-care professionals. At its core, hundreds of users evaluate EMR vendors and their products on a variety of characteristics allowing others the benefit of first-hand reports on reliability and usefulness. CanadianEMR helps hospitals and doctor's offices to make an informed decision about where to spend their money and which system is the right fit for their unique circumstances.

History of the company

CanadianEMR was founded in December 2003 by Dr. Alan Brookstone, a family physician and Electronic Medical Record enthusiast in Richmond, British Columbia. The basic philosophy behind CanadianEMR was the belief that high quality, physician generated expert discussion on Electronic Medical Record systems adoption and use would be of interest to physicians, medical office managers, regional health authorities, system administrators, vendors and government. The CanadianEMR Blog contains over 900 postings and discussion items contributed by physicians.

Since 2003, the CanadianEMR site has grown significantly. In 2004, the site received 11,000 page views. Currently the site receives 18,000 page views per month and has more than 500 registered members. The CanadianEMR site now includes a dynamic EMR comparison engine and EMR Satisfaction Rating system that allows physicians to compare EMR systems available in Canada and enables physicians to forward a side-by-side EMR comparison to a colleague or staff member.

The site also allows EMR vendors to publish an Enhanced Profile which provides the EMR vendor with high exposure amongst their audience of users. Visitors to CanadianEMR are generally physicians or practices who are looking to purchase an EMR system or change an EMR system.

November 2007 saw CanadianEMR beat more than 1000 other sites to win the Best Site Design award from the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. [http://blog.canadianemr.ca/canadianemr/2007/11/canadianemr-win.html (eHealthcare Awards)] These awards were given out at the 11th Annual Healthcare Internet Conference in Las Vegas. [http://www.strategichealthcare.com/awards/index.php (eHealthcare Awards)]

In February 2008, CanadianEMR released a Free Version of the CanadianEMR Satisfaction Ranking Tool for use by public organizations across Canada. [http://www.canadianemr.ca/index.aspx?PID=41 (Free Satisfaction/Rating Tool)] The tool allows users to rate their experience with specific EMR vendors such as [http://www.wolfmedical.com Wolf Medical Systems] , [http://www.clinicare.com/ CLINICARE] , Purkinje, Cerner, [http://www.abelsoft.com/ ABELSoft] , EMIS, Epic Systems Corporation, [http://nightingale.md/us/ Nightingale Informatix] , [http://www.p-pdata.com P&P Data Systems] and more.

ee also

* Electronic Medical Record
* Continuity of Care Record
* Informatics
* Electronic health record
* European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec)
* MUMPS
* Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA)
* Composite Health Care System

References

External links

* [http://www.canadianemr.ca/ CanadianEMR] The site includes a [http://blog.canadianemr.ca/ blog] to foster discussions about the EMR scene in Canada and around the world.
* [http://www.openclinical.org/emr.html OpenClinical - Electronic Medical Records]
* [http://recordaccess.icmcc.org/ The ICMCC portal on access to electronic medical records.] The portal includes a [http://blog.icmcc.org/ blog] to share and discuss experiences for both patients and clinicians as well as an extended overview of relevant literature.