Type of clinical software applications and technologies installed and used in the acute hospital setting in Ontario and that contribute to the suite of applications which in their aggregate are referred as "health information systems" or that contribute to the "electronic health record", "electronic medical record" and the "electronic medical record" Source: List of vendors extracted from Ontario Hospital Association eHealth Technologies and Applications Inventory January 14, 2009. Source of application descriptions in quotation marks: Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) http://www.himss.org/DorenfestInstitute/docs/ClinicalSystemsHospitalMarket.pdf accessed Sept 1, 2012 Scope: 61 discrete application classes were identified Categories: Abstracting Chart Tracking/Locator Clinical Data Repository Computerized Practitioner Order Entry (CPOE) Dictation Dictation with Speech Recognition Document Management - HIM Electronic Medication Administration Record (EMAR) EleElectronic Patient Record (EPR) Encoder In-House Transcription Nursing Documentation Order Entry (Includes Order Communications) Outsourced Transcription Physician Documentation Cardiology Information System DI/PACS Data Repository Diagnostic Imaging (DI) System Radiology Bar Coding Radiology Information System Drug Information System Patient Bar Coding Pharmacy Bar Coding Pharmacy Management System Case Cart Management Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) Operating Room (Surgery) - Peri-Operative Operating Room (Surgery) - Post-Operative Operating Room (Surgery) - Pre-Operative OR Scheduling Respiratory Care Information System eReferral System Browser Business Process Management Computers on Wheels (COWS) Data Warehouse Management Fixed Asset Equipment Tracking Interface Engines Materials Management Materials Management Bar Coding Single Sign-On Turnkey Portal Virtual Terminal (VT) (e.g. Citrix) Web Development Tool Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Anatomical Pathology Blood Bank Genetics Testing Laboratory Information System Microbiology Specimen Bar Coding Synoptic Reporting Admission Discharge Transfer (ADT)/Registration Client Registry Consent Management Nursing Bar Coding Patient Registration Bar Coding Patient Scheduling Provider Registry Release of Information Tracking RFID - Patient Tracking