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Canadian Health Infoway

Infoway is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose Members are Canada's 14 federal, provincial and territorial Deputy Ministers of Health. Launched in 2001, Infoway and its public sector partners have over 100 projects, either completed or underway, delivering electronic health record (EHR) solutions to Canadians - solutions that bring tangible value to patients, providers and the healthcare system. This web site contains client registry, provider registry and telehealth starter toolkits. www.infoway-inforoute.ca

Western Canada Chronic Disease Management Infostructure Project

This project is responsible for the development of an innovative and sustainable Chronic Disease Management "Infostructure", including core data sets, information interchange messages and related data definitions, and the capacity to share this data in support of clinical decision making for the primary health care team. A toolkit is to result in March 2006. http://www.whic.org/