“Physicians who observed the problems in Alberta when doctors tried to move their patient records from legacy EMRs to provincially certified EMRs may be worried. Will they be able to painlessly move their patient data to a new system if and when they need to? Ontario has taken steps to introduce data portability standards that help doctors avoid lock-in and preserve their EMR investments if they switch, and many other provinces are following suit.
“We introduced data portability requirements in our 2007 vendor specifications to protect doctors’ investments in EMRs,” says Brian Forster (pictured), CEO of OntarioMD, a company set up by the Ontario Medical Association and the Ministry of Health to oversee the EMR Adoption Program that helps fund EMRs adoption.”
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online, 26 May 2011
