Nursing Practice Links

Centre for Global eHealth Innovation

The Centre is a joint effort of UHN and the University of Toronto and was built with funds from the Canadian government, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Innovation Trust. It is a place where human, physical and virtual resources come together to develop and evaluate eHealth innovations, using the expertise of leaders in the social sciences, technology and health fields. Using the Centre's state-of-the-art facilities and resources, we are able to engage in collaborative, transdisciplinary efforts, crossing institutional, political, cultural and geographic boundaries.

The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care

Health care professionals and policymakers seeking to ensure greater value in health care services face many boundary conditions that are fixed and a host of problems that are not. Today, the opportunity to affect one of those boundary conditions—the information management capabilities in health care—is within our grasp. This report advocates the prompt development and implementation of computer-based patient records (CPRs). Put simply, this Institute of Medicine committee believes that CPRs and CPR systems have a unique potential to improve the care of both individual patients and populations and, concurrently, to reduce waste through continuous quality improvement. .

EMR Comparison Information

The Medical Record Institute publishes a comparison of various EMR applications. The Medical Records Institute (MRI) has launched EMRCompare with 14 Electronic Medical Record (EMR) companies participating initially. MRI anticipates that another 30-50 EMR solutions will be available by the end of the year.

GE Medical Systems: KnowledgeBank

Welcome to KnowledgeBank - a site dedicated to giving you a jump start in custom content development for Logician. Creating new clinical components to use with Logician, specifically, encounter forms and reports can be complex and time-consuming. KnowledgeBank lets you leverage the collective wisdom of Logician clinical content developers by offering a wide variety of items for you to download.

Lab Tests Online

The site is produced by AACC and is the result of a collaboration of professional societies representing the laboratory community. When we launched this site in 2001, it was a time when health care consumers were being asked to assume more responsibility for their care. Today, knowing more about lab tests and the issues surrounding testing is an important part of fulfilling this responsibility.

New Pathways to Planning

Excellent resource for community profiling and development planning including online worksheets.

NursingCenter.com - The New Face of Nursing

Offers online CE courses, journals, forums, virtual university and more.

Usability.gov

provides guidance and tools on how to make Web sites and other communication systems more usable and useful. This site was developed to specifically assist Web managers, designers, usability specialists, and others create Web sites that are highly responsive, easy-to-use, and useful.