PITO

Background

“The Physician Information Technology Office (PITO) is an outcome of the 2006 Agreement, Appendix C (www.bcma.org), where the provincial government and the BCMA 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 ofelectronic medical records (EMR).”

Under this agreement, the Ministry of Health provides funding to physicians to support the implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR) solution provided the EMR selected by the physician is a PITO qualified solution.  PITO funding will provide eligible physicians with reimbursement at 70% of actual costs (up to a maximum) for EMR software, hardware, network and other implementation costs.  Details on the PITO solution offering can be found on the PITO website.

Osler is proud to be one of just five PITO qualified vendors.  Through a rigorous and comprehensive qualification process, with criteria developed by an advisory group including more than 40 practicing general and specialist physicians, Osler demonstrated that its EMR solution, Practice Manager, meets or exceeds the needs of today's physicians.

Data Hosting

PITO qualified EMR solutions must be hosted by an accredited, non-government third party application service provider (ASP). Osler Systems has partnered with the world class professionals at CGI to provide EMR hosting services.  To learn more about Osler's hosted solution and its numerous benefits, read this. 

Let us help

If you are interested in applying to PITO contact us and we will guide you through the entire process. Osler support staff can help you every step of the way from sending in your application through to implementation, training and ongoing follow-up support.  Change can be hard. Let us help you through it.