The Ontario Shore Team including Glenna Raymond, President and CEO and the Heatlhtech representatives, Susanne Flett, President, Karen Shearing-Witting, Senior Vice-President and Terri LeFort, Vice-President.

In July of this year, a call for nominations was issued by COACH and ITAC Health to salute excellence in Healthcare Information Technology. A joint nomination was submitted with Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences for the ITAC Health Project Team –  Patient Care Innovation Award 2011 as well as for the ITAC Health Project Team – Implementation Award 2011. Healthtech also supported an Ontario Shores COACH nomination for Emerging Leader in Health Informatics for Allison MacDonald.

On November 9, 2011, Healthtech attended the 7th Annual Canadian Health Informatics Awards Gala,  celebrating the outstanding achievements and excellence in the Canadian Health Informatics industry, as well as recognizing and honouring the contributions of individuals and companies in the efficient use of information technology to improve the health of all Canadians.

Healthtech Consultants is proud to announce they have won both awards!

Debra Churchill, Director of Professional Practice and Clinical Informatics, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences accepted the Patient Care Innovation Award and John Chen, CFO at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences accepted the Implementation Award on behalf of the teams.

The entire Ontario Shores team, including Glenna Raymond, CEO, Paul McDevitt, Vice Chair of the Board and Greg Hoeft, Director of Sales – Canada for Meditech joined the Healthtech team; Susanne Flett, President, Karen Shearing-Wittig, Senior Vice President, Terri LeFort, Vice President and Anne-Marie Charron, Director of Business Development at this event.

This is a great testament to the wonderful partnership that Healthtech has had with Ontario Shores and to the commitment and dedication of the project teams involved. We can and do make a difference.

Alison MacDonald also won the COACH – Emerging Leader in Health Informatics.

Healthtech congratulates everyone involved in this project over the past several years and will continue to meet and exceed client expectations on all our projects.

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(WHITBY and TORONTO, ON) November 11, 2011 – On Wednesday, November 9, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) and Healthtech Consultants (Healthtech) received two awards from the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) Health: Project Implementation Team of the Year and Project Patient Care Innovation Team of the Year.

These prestigious awards recognize a not-for-profit healthcare team and a for-profit healthcare ICT Company that have successfully implemented an IT-health solution within a healthcare organization. Ontario Shores, together with Healthtech, were recognized on a national level for the implementation of our fully integrated electronic health record system.

“We are truly honoured to be recognized as a leader in Information Technology and Health Informatics,” says Karim Mamdani, Chief Operating Officer. “Our success lies in the remarkable work of our people, who designed and built a specialized system to meet the unique needs of patients receiving mental health care. Their vision and expertise enabled Ontario Shores to participate in advancing the future of healthcare.”

“This is a great testament to the wonderful partnership we have had with Ontario Shores and to the commitment and dedication of the Healthtech project teams involved during this great initiative,” says Susanne Flett, President of Healthtech. “Together we successfully demonstrated the use of technology to support quality patient care and clinical practice.”

Ontario Shores brought advanced clinical systems to its inpatient units using MEDITECH 6.0, and recently integrated the system with all outpatient and offsite locations and clinics. The hospital immediately saw benefits in terms of quality of care and patient safety.

Awards were presented at the 7^th Annual Canadian Health Informatics Awards Gala, celebrating the outstanding achievements and excellence in the field of Canadian Health Informatics, as well as recognizing and honouring the contributions of individuals and companies in the efficient use of information technology to improve the health of all Canadians.

Alison MacDonald, Clinical Education Leader, also received the 2011 Emerging Leader in Health Informatics Award from COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics Association for her role in the implementation of the electronic health record system.

The Ontario Shore Team including Glenna Raymond, President and CEO and the Heatlhtech representatives, Susanne Flett, President, Karen Shearing-Witting, Senior Vice-President and Terri LeFort, Vice-President.

About Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences:

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) is a leader in mental health care, providing a spectrum of specialized assessment and treatment services for people living with complex mental illness. Patients benefit from a recovery-oriented environment of care, built on compassion, inspiration and hope. Ontario Shores engages in research, education and advocacy initiatives to advance the mental health care system.

About Healthtech Consultants:

Healthtech Consultants has been advancing the quality of patient care through the use of technology for over 28 years. We offer a wide range of IM/IT consulting services exclusively to the healthcare industry, including Meditech consulting services such as Meditech 6.0 readiness, planning, implementation, advanced clinicals, project management and optimization.

Our real experience creates real results.

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In principle, it makes sense to put health records into the “cloud”; the factories for mass-producing digital services that are the IT industry’s next big thing should be ideal places to store, maintain and process patient and clinical data. Doctors’ surgeries, hospitals and patients would all be able to retrieve and manipulate the data remotely, over the internet. Bridget van Kralingen, a senior executive at IBM, sees health care providing maybe one-tenth of the $7 billion in revenues her firm sees from cloud computing by 2015.

But some scepticism is in order. A scheme to computerise the medical records of every patient in England has turned into a spectacularly expensive fiasco. Gartner, a technology consultancy, observes in a recent report that tech firms are rushing to rebrand their products with the latest “cloud” buzzword, “whether they actually are cloud offerings or not.” The danger is that America’s health services have foisted upon them whatever the industry has to sell, rather than what is needed.

Keeping patient records secure and private is another big concern. But PWC, a consultancy, says some firms are finding solutions to this, developing secure cloud-computing systems that can be tailored to different countries’ laws on the privacy of health data.

The best reason to set aside such doubts and hope that cloud computing will take off in health care comes from the bottom up. Richard Escue of RehabCare, a chain of rehabilitation centres, was sceptical at first, but found that the “unstoppable” popularity of iPhones and other smart mobile devices among staff—and their demands to be able to send and receive health data on them—forced his IT team to embrace a cloud-connected set of mobile devices.

Stephen Herrod of VMware, a big cloud-computing firm, says the surging popularity of smartphones, tablets and other hand-held gadgets plus the government push for digitisation add up to an unstoppable force that will help firms like his overcome all the obstacles. If so, the slow, inefficient health-care industry will enjoy faster transmission and smarter analysis of data, and better diagnoses. Doctors, nurses and, above all, patients, will benefit.

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Israel Mendez – Chief Administration Officer, Closing the Gap Healthcare Group

Michelle Biehler – Clinical Director Access & Service Coordination, CTN

Andrea Chisholm – Consultant, York Region Community Foundation

Louise Paul – CEO, CTN

Paula Hucko – Vice President, Sales & Marketing, GoldCare, Campana

Susanne Flett – President, Healthtech Consultants

Don Jenning – Senior Account Manager, Campana

June 2011 – The Ingenious Awards Program is designed to celebrate Canadian organizations that have successfully enhanced their business productivity through the adoption of technology. Nominations were submitted under five categories: Large Private Business, Large Public Organization (enterprise), Small to Medium Size Business, Small to Medium Size Public Organization (enterprise) and Not-for-Profit. The CIO Association of Canada (CIOCAN) was responsible for overseeing the two-tiered judging process, 12 representatives from which worked together to select the 19 finalists.

Healthtech congratulates Ontario Telemedicine Network for winning the Small to Medium Size Public Organization Award and Children’s Treatment Network (CTN) of Simcoe York for winning the Not for Profit Award for their Single Plan of Care and Electronic Client Record Project.

Susanne Flett, President of Healthtech was on hand at the awards ceremony held June 14th and was able to congratulate both awards winners and long time clients of Healthtech.

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Board Member Profile: Meet Susanne Flett

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“I am honored that Healthtech Consultants has been named among one of the Top 50 Best Small and Medium Employers in Canada,” said Susanne Flett, President and Founder of Healthtech Consultants. “I founded Healthtech Consultants out of a need to make a difference in the healthcare information management and information technology industry. Today’s announcement that Healthtech Consultants is part of this prestigious list demonstrates the passion and commitment that our consultants have towards our organization and to improving the delivery of patient care through the use of technology.”

Becoming a Top Best Small and Medium Employer is a very detailed and competitive process. This national awards program recognizes top employers with between 50 and 400 employees. This study mirrors the renowned Best Employer in Canada initiative run by partner, Hewitt Associates; however, caters to smaller businesses.

The rankings are primarily determined using the results from Employee Opinion Surveys. Here, 18 key engagement drivers are detailed and analyzed. The evaluation process also includes the assessment of organization practices and perspectives from the leadership team. This year, more than 250 companies across Canada registered to participate in the study.

A detailed breakdown of the winner rankings can be found in the Careers section of the Wednesday, January 14, 2009 edition of The Globe and Mail or online at:

http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090114.wbestlist0114/BNStory/…

Study partners include Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing and Hewitt Associates. More information about the Best Small and Medium Employers in Canada is available online at: http://business.queensu.ca/qcbv/sme.

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