In The Sydney Morning Herald’s latest article, Dana McCauley discusses elective surgery in Victoria’s public hospitals expecting to face even longer wait times, with the state government delaying a return to pre-coronavirus pandemic capacity as the COVID-19 outbreak puts pressure on the healthcare system. Read full article here.
In CTV News’ latest article, Dr. David Urbach, chief of surgery at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, said the pandemic offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul the system and transform how surgeries are done nationwide in the aftermath of COVID-19. Read the full CTV News article here.
The Canadian Medical Association Journal’s recent publication “Confronting the COVID-19 surgery crisis: time for transformational change” outlines the merits of a central intake system as Canada begins to plan rescheduling elective surgeries that were ground to a halt due to COVID-19. Read the full article here.
To improve capacity to provide care for COVID-19 patients, hospitals across the country have taken the unprecedented emergency action of cancelling most elective surgeries. Doing so has reduced the use of valuable PPE and freed up much needed hospital beds normally occupied by elective surgical patients. Cancelling elective surgeries is a difficult, but…
Novari’s virtual care technology has been quickly called upon to assist in delivering care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are currently working seven days a week on continuing to provide patients the ability to see a healthcare professional without the need to visit a hospital emergency department or their primary care physician’s office. Virtual…
How often have you found yourself waiting months for a doctor’s appointment or referral?While the healthcare system is full of well intentioned, caring individuals, the system has left many Canadians waiting in long queues to receive the medical care and attention they need. Healthcare administrators and providers in the North West worked with Microsoft partner…
This past weekend the Novari Family had the opportunity to celebrate another successful year! We are very excited about what is to come in 2020!
Novari Health’s Medical Imaging Requisition Management™ (MIRM) eReferral solution has gone live at North York General Hospital (NYGH), eliminating the burden of paper-based medical imaging requisitions and streamlining medical imaging workflows. Like most hospitals, the medical imaging department at NYGH receives many thousands of imaging requisitions from community-based physicians. There is a global movement to ‘Axe…
Novari Health eRequest™, an eReferral, central intake and workflow management module has gone live at London Health Science Centre and other participating hospitals in the south west region of the province. Implementations of the same Novari Health technology have proven to be impactful in the central west, central, Mississauga Halton, north west, and now the…
The Cowichan Tribes-owned, Mustimuhw Information Solutions (MIS), is a trusted digital health partner, supplying unique software solutions designed specifically to meet the needs of First Nations Health Centres and Child & Family Service Agencies across Canada. MIS has partnered with Novari Health to offer their First Nations Health Centres and social service agencies Novari’s virtual…