PITO: Supporting BC Physicians
PITO: Supporting BC Physicians
Adopting Information Technology
Updates
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Recommended Action re: New Apple Operating System - OS X Lion - Apple has recently released a new Operating System - OS X Lion. In order to determine the compatibil...
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Changes to PITO Funding Policies - Two changes to PITO's funding policies came into effect on January 19th, 2011. The first affect...
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PITO Establishing New Programs to Support Specialists and GPs - With electronic medical record (EMR) adoption now well underway in BC, the BCMA and the Ministry of...
What is PITO?
The Physician Information Technology Office (PITO) is an outcome of the 2006 Agreement, Appendix C, where the provincial government and the BC Medical Association agreed to work collaboratively to "co-ordinate, facilitate and support information technology planning and implementation for physicians... including the development and implementation in British Columbia of standardized systems of electronic medical records (EMR)."
The $107.8m project supports physicians preparing for and adopting EMRs and provides reimbursement of up to 70% of the eligible costs.
