Northwest Territories Research Database

Principal Investigator: Manca, Donna P
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Summary: The aim is to create a longitudinal data repository for primary care chronic disease that will form the basis of surveillance reports, research projects and feedback to participating practices. A regional and a central data repository will be a resource for surveillance and research in primary care to answer questions about the treatment and management of chronic diseases. This data will be used t...

Principal Investigator: Affleck, Ewan
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014
Summary: The objective of this research is to determine whether an Electronic medical record (EMR) based clinical alert system, which uses digital inference rules to notify providers of undocumented problems, improves problem list documentation in the Northwest Territories. The EMR study will attempt to replicate the findings from a study by Wright, et al. (2012). The objective of this study was “to de...

Principal Investigator: Kuhn, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2012 2011
Summary: The overall aim of this research project is to conduct an evaluation of the HealthNet Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation in the NWT to assess the impact on patient care and resource utilization as well as gather lessons learned that may be used to inform other clinical systems implementations. Since the research protocol and ethics applications were approved, the Department of Health...

Principal Investigator: Shaw, Nicola T
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: The licence has been issued for the scientific research application #843. The purpose of this research is to provide physicians with practical information on best practices and lessons learned with regards to implementation and use of electronic medical record (EMR) systems in ambulatory clinical practice settings. Methods employed in this study include an online survey, one face-to-face in...