OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today, Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD, and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector. Their unique perspective as key figures in Ontario’s healthcare technology field offers valuable insights into the trends and challenges facing the industry. Driving Compliance and Conformance Lee, responsible for the EMR certification program at OntarioMD, outlined their mission, which includes compliance, conformance, defining clinical workflows, and setting requirements for vendors and their products. The program plays a pivotal role in maintaining the industry standards and expectations. Lee emphasized the importance of continuing to evolve these standards and how they are expressed for clinicians in their daily practice. “Our job is to ensure that all the certified EMRs meet a certain set of expectations,” explained Lee. “To be clear, we don’t set these expectations. What we do is uphold the expectations on behalf of others like Ontario Health in Ontario, which is an agent of the Ministry of Health. Meet those expectations and you can participate in the ecosystem.” One of the expectations is interoperability. The Challenge of Interoperability LaDuke is responsible for helping vendors integrate with provincial services and part of that inte...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Interoperability Aiden Lee Canadian EMR FHIR Healthcare AI Healthcare Interoperability Matt Leduc OLIS Ontario Health OntarioMD Source Type: blogs