“An open-source EMR that was implemented in Belize by a Canadian team more than three years ago is showing results. “We put it in for a buck a citizen for the whole nation, and it runs all the clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and labs,” says Dr. Michael Graven (pictured), co-developer of the system and a neonatologist with the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.
Dr. Graven has been involved in healthcare IT for almost 30 years, and has also worked overseas in developing countries for decades. “When you hold a dying baby in your arms, what are you going to do about it? It turns out you can do a lot with IT to structurally alter healthcare”.”
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online, 30 September 2010
