GHC expands into cyberspace.Already lionized by the Romanow Royal Commission as Canada's "best kept secret" in community-based health care delivery, Sault Ste. Marie's Group Health Centre (GHC (language) GHC - 1. Guarded horn clauses. 2. Glasgow Haskell Compiler. ) intends to market their high-tech health wares internationally. The Willow Avenue clinic is expanding its information technology (IT) base with a new partnership and a suite of new electronic record-keeping products and services now under various stages of development. The groundbreaking began in early February on the Health Care Communications and Technology Centre, a 12,750-square-foot addition and partnership between the GHC and the Sault Ste. Marie Sault Sainte Marie — pronounced "Soo Saint Marie" (IPA /su seɪnt məˈɹi/) — is the name of two cities on the Saint Marys River, which forms part of the boundary between the United States and Canada. Innovation Centre. The new addition will house the Innovation Centre's GIS component and will share space with the GHC's IT department to develop future software applications. The $2.3 million structure, scheduled for completion in late summer, will include the Group Health Centre's transcription and communication services, including an electronic appointment booking service they plan to market internationally, initially targeting northern Michigan This article is about the region; for the university, see Northern Michigan University Northern Michigan - or more properly Northern Lower Michigan - is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan, popular as a tourist destination. . Greg Punch, GHC's director of corporate development, says the centre has received national recognition for their chronic disease management programs, that if patients have a better understanding of their condition, they can manage their disease better and get better outcomes. Now GHC is "taking it to the next step" through e-medicine records. Under the label of MedCura, the centre is marketing more than 40 years of knowledge and expertise developed around the GHC's primary care model. Now health care providers can access the technology, management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects and training developed by the GHC. "We've taken our core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it ." Punch says both partners are developing a business model to sell the appointment services to other clinics, physicians' offices and hospitals. It allows clinics like the GHC to book multiple appointments, allowing incoming travellers to coordinate all their appointments and procedures for one visit. The GHC is currently doing all outpatient booking for the Algoma Health Unit and the Sault Area Hospitals. They are also doing a feasibility study "A Feasibility Study" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 13 April, 1964, during the first season. It was remade in 1997 as part of the revived The Outer Limits series with a minor title change. on voice recognition (voice-to-text) for their transcription system and are investigating the use of handheld wireless technologies and video-conferencing to provide more interactive health care, for example linking elderly patients with their out-of-town children during physician appointments. Punch is especially excited about their Patient Portals technology, a Web-based suite of products allowing patients to monitor their vascular problems via the Internet. Though still working on the model, it will allow patients to seek out disease-specific health-care information, access to chat rooms, or charting their vital signs from home as part of an electronic chart. Patients wouldn't necessarily have complete access to their medical records, but would be able to find resources online. GHC received $744,000 from the Ministry of Health in January to develop the technology. www.ghc.on.ca BY IAN ROSS Ian Ross is the name of:
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