Just wanted to post about VitalHub, the latest in iPhone + EMR — being developed and implemented in-house at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto! Watch the beautiful video of it in action, courtesy of the Apple website. The essentials: VitalHub allows health care professionals to access records from 66 applications being used at Mount [...]

  “Geography is destiny in medicine.” –Jack Lord, MD In my undergrad English lit courses, I heard a lot about “character is destiny”. Which is a fancy way of blowing things out of proportion – e.g., Romeo and Juliet didn’t die via the quality of being “star-crossed”, but because they were super emo. Well, this [...]

  *I promised I’d share Toronto physician blogs if I found them, so here’s a GREAT one: Dr. Greiver’s EMR. She’s a family doc in North York and was recently featured on the CBC for her > 4 year documentation of the peaks and valleys of running with the Nightingale EMR (one of the ones [...]

The success of electronic medical records (EMR) depends on much more than the EMR itself, but intuitive, smart software is still important. In this post (Merry Christmas!), I will talk about one tough issue in particular, the search problem, and why a “finder” like Google Wave (June, November) might be a good idea. Larger electronic [...]