High Tech businesses Associated Information Management
and Medisolution: |
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Nipawin - September 9, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis | |
MediSolution |
A few days ago, I came across the surprising news that the business Associated Information |
Management (AIM) was hosting a web site called MediSolution delivering everything from | |
accessing patient records to paying bills(1). | |
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surface out of nowhere |
Jim Ramsay, official with AIM, says the service is affordable to cash-strapped health |
districts, health service providers and first nations groups(2). How this business can | |
surface out of nowhere when we have a crown corporation called SHIN (Saskatchewan | |
Health Information Network) is quite a mystery. | |
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tacit consent of the Minister |
SHIN was given $40 million to develop a province wide health information network |
where health care agencies would be able to share medical records, and as at today we | |
don't know what this crown corporation has been up(3). The projects currently listed | |
by SHIN don't include any partnership with either AIM or MediSolution(4). Further, | |
Saskatchewan health care districts have been the puppets of this government and as a | |
consequence the entry of this web site into the governmental health care market can | |
have occurred only with the tacit consent of the Minister of Health Pat Atkinson. | |
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patient records |
What is more puzzling is that this web site would allow districts and health providers |
to share their patient records and at this time I don't have confirmation that The Health | |
Information Protection Act has been proclaimed to be effective(5). | |
---------------Endnotes: | |
MediSolution signs $2.5-million contract to launch Internet-based technology to bring better health care to Saskatchewan communities and First Nations reserves http://micro.newswire.ca/releases/September2000/06/c1114.html/84663-0 | |
Sask. website to store medical records, CBC Saskatchewan, http://www.sask.cbc.ca/ Web Posted | Sep 6 2000 8:59 PM EDT | |
Associate Minister of Health Judy Junor: defending the SHIN flop at the Legislature, by Mario deSantis, April 13, 2000 | |
SHIN's Projects, this site was accessed on September 8, 2000 http://www.shin.sk.ca/projects/project.htm | |
The Health Information Protection Act, Government of Saskatchewan, http://www.gov.sk.ca/health/publications/hipamain.htm | |
------------References | |
MediSolutions corporate webs site. | |
MediSolutions site map | |
This Alberta press release describes the use of the software from MediSolutions | |
This March document explains what MediSolutions is and how it works. | |
The client download page for MediSolutions (editor's note: this site and its software are microsoft based that would make its security level on a scale of 1 to 10 about a "2".) | |
Followup: See Letters, and Mario deSantis' effort to clarify what is going on. |