John Sinclair, President at Novari Health and a Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS-CA) will be presenting at the Ontario Health IT Conference in Toronto on Thursday, October 3, 2019. Mr. Sinclair’s presentation focuses on Ontario success stories in virtual care, eReferral, central intake, and wait list management. He will share real…
Dr. Chris Simpson, Chief Medical Information Officer at Novari Health, and former President of the Canadian Medical Association will be presenting at the National Summit on Integrated Care on Wednesday, September 25, 2019, in Toronto. Dr. Simpson’s presentation will focus on leveraging and scaling out digital tools to improve access to care across the care…
Dr. Chris Simpson, Chief Medical Information Officer at Novari Health, and former President of the Canadian Medical Association will be presenting at Breakfast with the Chiefs on September 25, 2019 in Toronto. Dr. Simpson’s presentation focuses on “Ontario’s Access to Care Challenges from My Side of the Gurney and Computer”. By international standards, Canada performs…
Novari was honoured to welcome Teri Price, Co-Founder of Greg’s Wings Project, at the Kingston office to lead a viewing of the film Falling Through the Cracks: Greg’s Story. The Canadian short film follows Greg Price’s journey through the healthcare system, which ended in a very unexpected and tragic death. Having the opportunity to watch…
Building Real Health Systems in Ontario Dramatic changes are coming fast as two factors, economic necessity and the digital revolution affect Ontario’s fragmented health and healthcare “system”. Four will predominate: People will demand that real, coordinated systems of care, in which the whole spectrum of health service providers (HSP)[i] are linked together, be established to…
CIHI Update on Wait Times The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has released updated data on wait times for priority procedures in Canada. The data shows that approximately 30% of patients who required a hip or knee replacement or cataract surgery did not have their procedure done within the recommended wait times. Read More
Novari eReferral Technologies Now Helping More Ontario PatientsTORONTO, Ontario, Canada – December 4, 2018 — Canadian healthcare administrators, clinicians, hospitals and ministries of health are focusing on improving access to care for patients. Novari Health’s unique access to care software platform is enabling dramatic improvements for Canadians accessing healthcare services and in shortening wait times. Long…
Still Waiting After All These Years Canadians cherish their healthcare system. It has become part of our national fabric; one of the defining characteristics of our country. We value the principle that our access to health care depends fundamentally on need rather than on the ability to pay. Our national heroes include the founders of…
KINGSTON, Ontario, Canada – July 23rd, 2018: Novari Health is proud to announce that our team has won the 2018 Microsoft Canada Citizenship and Community IMPACT Award. These annual awards recognize Microsoft partners who demonstrate excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Microsoft prides on having the largest partner ecosystem…
KINGSTON, July 10th, 2018: Novari Health has been nominated by Microsoft Canada as one of the 2018 Microsoft IMPACT award finalists. The IMPACT Awards showcase the excellence and innovation within the Microsoft Canadian Partner community. Novari Health has been nominated for the Citizenship and Community Award, this award recognizes partners that have leveraged Microsoft technology…
KINGSTON, May 28, 2018: Novari Health, an international leader in designing, building and deploying access to care software technologies that improve access for patients, announces the appointment of Dr. Chris Simpson (BSc, MD, FRCPC, FACC, FHRS, FCCS, FCAHS) as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). Dr. Simpson is recognized nationally and internationally for his clinical…
KINGSTON, May 8, 2018 – Novari Health’s eReferral and central intake technology has gone live in the North West and Central LHIN regions of the province. The 14 Local Health Integration Networks have been mandated to implement a central intake and rapid clinical assessment model of care for patients being referred for possible hip…
Following an innovative and competitive procurement process, Novari Health’s eVisit solution was selected by the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) as the enabling technology for a primary care project, in which participating patients may have virtual visits with their family physician.
Following an innovative and competitive procurement process, Novari Health’s eVisit solution was selected by the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) as the enabling technology for a primary care project, in which participating patients may have virtual visits with their family physician.
Having widely deployed our software platform in various healthcare settings, and with our own clinical background, Novari fully appreciates the importance for physicians and office staff in having a seamless experience when using an electronic medical record (EMR) system. The Novari EMR Connect™ functionality facilitates connectivity between any web-based physician office EMR and the various…
Novari is pleased to announce that the Novari Access to Care software platform has successfully gone live across the North West LHIN. The project was jointly led by Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). With the objective of improving access to care for patients, the Novari…
Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) has commenced an implementation of the Novari Access to Care Platform. HHS is a leading-edge teaching hospital with over 15,000 employees, physicians and volunteers across its six-hospital sites and six specialized healthcare facilities. An experienced implementation team from Novari has begun to work with a multidisciplinary team from HHS towards a…
John Sinclair, President of Novari Health is pleased to announce that John Lott has joined the team at Novari as Vice President-Corporate Affairs. John has over 25 years of senior leadership experience in the areas of Performance Management that includes decision support, case costing, benchmarking, patient safety quality risk, and the development and implementation of…
Recognizing the similarities between the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian healthcare systems, Canadian based Novari Health has expanded to serve the Australian and New Zealand healthcare markets. Novari Health Pty Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Novari Health Inc. and is based in Sydney’s CBD. Novari’s recruitment efforts have attracted top local talent, some…
The Mississauga Halton Central Intake Program has selected Novari eRequest™ as its software platform as it moves to implement electronic eReferrals with a central intake capability.
KINGSTON, ON: Novari Health is pleased to announce that is has signed an alliance agreement with QHR Technologies Inc., a leader in the Healthcare Information Technology sector. Novari Health and QHR’s Electronic Medical Records (“EMR”) division are collaboratively integrating technologies to bring the combined benefits of two popular systems to Canadian healthcare providers and patients.…
John Sinclair, Novari Vice President (Kingston) and Leslie Motz surgical director at Lakeridge Health (Oshawa) will be co-presenting at the upcoming 174th IFHIMA Congress (Health Information Management). The conference attracting delegates and speakers from around the world is being held in Montreal May 13-15. The Novari / Lakeridge presentation titled “Implementing a Regional Surgical Access…
Brief Overview Since the early 2000s improving access to surgical and other hospital based care has been a national, provincial and regional priority across the country. Federal and provincial governments have allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to improve Canada’s weak performance in this area relative to other developed countries. Despite this investment, Canada continues…
Novari Health is pleased to announce that is has signed an alliance agreement with QHR Technologies Inc., a leader in the Healthcare Information Technology sector. Novari Health and QHR’s Electronic Medical Records (“EMR”) division are collaboratively integrating technologies to bring the combined benefits of two popular systems to Canadian healthcare providers and patients. This collaboration…
CORNWALL, ON: The Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) is the first site within the Champlain LHIN to move to an integrated surgical eBooking, wait list management and automated provincial wait times reporting system. The browser based Novari Access to Care™ solution was selected to improve patient access to care by providing individual physician offices with a…
John Sinclair CPHIMS-CA , Novari Health Vice President will be a presenter at the upcoming 2013 Australian RACMA Conference in Gold Coast Australia Sept. 4-6. Mr. Sinclair’s presentation is titled “Surgical Wait Times; A Canadian eHealth wait list management, wait times reporting and eBooking success story”. Information on the Australian healthcare conference is available at www.racmaconference.com.au.…
Capital District Health Authority (CDHA) in Nova Scotia has completed their expansion and upgrade of the Novari Access to Care system. The system is now live across all CDHA surgical sites and surgical offices. Cases can now be paperlessly eBooked by the physician offices to the OR via the Novari McKesson PHS/HSM interface. In addition,…
