Within the next month, CanadianEMR will host the first of a regular series of round table audio forums dealing with topical issues that converge at the interfaces between the acute, community and primary care systems. The first roundtable is titled 'EHR vs. EMR - Issues a...

In a study published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Electronic Health Records (read EMR in Canada) failed to boost care delivered in routine doctor visits. The numbers of patient visits (1.8 billion) are hard to dispute and provide validity to the numbers. The conclusions from the s...

"I think most people, when they hear of this, would say this is just plain wrong," Brosco said. "But it is a complicated story, and when you get into this issue, you can understand the difficulties. That's Miami pediatrician Jeffrey Brosco talking about the case of "Ashley,"...