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A new study has found that adults with diabetes in Ontario are getting significantly fewer government-funded eye exams than they were a decade ago, a key component of high-quality diabetes care essential to preventing diabetes-related eye complications. The decrease is an unintended consequence of the provincial government’s decision in 2004 to delist routine eye exams from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan for healthy adults under age 65, said lead researcher Dr. Tara Kiran. Routine...

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- e-MDs, an industry leader in the development and implementation of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) solutions, announced they have been selected as a recommended EHR vendor by the Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP). OHIP is a non-profit entity supported by state and federal grants and serves as a Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (HITREC) in Ohio. As a preferred vendor, e-MDs will work...