The Government of the Northwest Territories responded Friday to the coroner’s report into the 2009 death of a Yellowknife man on the anti-depressant Venlafaxine. Minister of Health and Social Services Sandy Lee said the department took the recommendations in the March 2 report seriously and waited until the end of the month to respond since [...]

Known as the NWT HealthNet Viewer, the system is a web-based portal that will allow authorized health care professionals in the NWT “view-only” access to medical information including lab results, diagnostic imaging reports, clinical reports, patient lists and event history from health care centres across the NWT. The viewer is the first part of the interoperable Electronic Health Record (iEHR). The new system will allow health professionals to make more timely decisions as well provide better patient care.