Canada Health Infoway investing in mobile accessibility for EHRs

Canadian healthcare may be ready to go mobile. Canada Health Infoway, the national government's electronic health record development organization, will invest $45 million to create "consumer health solutions" to allow patients to access their EHR records through mobile devices like smartphones.

The number of physicians who've adopted electronic records across the country is still in the minority, eBusiness Research Centre researcher Norm Archer told the Canadian Medical Association Journal last month. But Infoway is plowing ahead anyway, chief technology officer Dennis Giokas told the journal. He says the organization must "think beyond" EHRs and find ways to leverage the exploding mobile market to improve patient access to care, and communication options with clinicians.