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Several Canadian provincial governments have been discussing the benefits of reducing the number of physician office system (POS) vendors in Canada's marketplace. While this strategy may have some short-term benefits as eHealth emerges across Canada, the impact to care providers is significant. By reducing the selection of available physician office systems in the Canadian marketplace physicians may be forced to implement productivity tools that are not suited to their practice. This may impact overall quality of care to Canadians.

The strategy being implemented creates market barriers that restrict companies from developing new eHealth products in an emerging Canadian marketplace. Currently there are approximately ten vendors selling POS systems in provinces across Canada. (http://www.open-health.ca/newsevents/)

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* The provincial government should not be implementing policies that restrict physicians from buying physician office system tools of their choice.:  
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* Provincial governments should continue supporting the vendor conformance and usability requirements (VCUR) and emerging pan-Canadian standards for physician office systems. All physician systems conforming to the VCUR standards should qualify for provincial funding.:  
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Open-Health’s mission is to create a collaborative environment where stakeholders working in the health industry can jointly develop processes and technologies that support "next generation" information management tools. Our objective is to create a platform where existing workflow, EMR, and decision support tools can be used seamlessly by practitioners treating patients in a patient-centric environment.

Open-Health’s objective is to assist manufacturers during the development of processes and standards required to electronically exchange health infomation between custodians (e.g. between clinics, pharmacies, and health regions). (Http://www.Open-Health.ca)

 

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