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Creating a new IT culture in health care
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Oct 3, 2011
… Moving from paper legacy systems to modern IT is a big change. New hardware, new skills, new attitudes, new assumptions. It’s really a new culture and you don’t get there in one step.” … we are well on our way and are starting to reap the benefits of health IT systems throughout the country… almost 260,000 tele-health sessions were held in 2010, supporting services such as remote care, education for health providers and administrative meetings… Canadians who received care via telehealth rather than travelling to other communities for care saved about $70-million in personal travel costs in 2010.
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