I have been referred to Magenta Health by the Health Care Connect service, what do I do next?

Health Care Connect helps Ontarians who are without a family health care provider (family doctor or nurse practitioner) to find one. People without a family health care provider are referred to a family doctor or a nurse practitioner who is accepting new patients in their community.

Magenta Health is part of this program as part of our commitment to help service the medical needs of our community. 

Being referred by HCC does not automatically mean that you are a patient of the suggested doctor. Individuals still have to register via our website and the suggested physician may not be available when the registration is processed.

Thanks, and we look forward to meeting soon!

A Belated Update - Photos & New Patient Appts

Although some walls still need to be painted and we can't wash our hands in the washroom quite yet, we're just days away from the completion of construction. It's somewhat hard to believe (since the photos below suggest - at least to us - that there's quite a lot of work left to do) but that's what we're told!

We'll share more once we're officially open for business, but in the meantime, we've started to schedule new patient intake appointments.

Only a few dozen invitations have been sent out so that we have a opportunity to confirm our electronic systems are working properly. Once we're confident everything is working well, we'll be sending everyone else who registered with us a personalized email with information on how to schedule their intake appointment.

In the meantime, at least for us, it's interesting to look back and see where we started from. Here was the first mock-up of the space that we drew ourselves after we visited the unit back in the middle of 2013!


Learning something new: Off-Lease Computers Make Amazing Thin Clients

For those who don't know, thin clients are computers used primarily to connect to some other computer where the actual "computing" takes place on the remote computer.

We need thin clients because we're using a remote desktop session host based IT infrastructure. Sounds complicated, but it'll help our physicians see patients more effectively and efficiently (well, that's the promise anyways).

So what did we learn today? It's amazing the value you get from off-lease computers. These are computers leased by large corporations for a few years, and then returned as "obsolete" even though, in practice, they are still fully usable.  They aren't the fastest or prettiest machines on the block anymore, but as thin clients, they are more that adequate (frankly, some of these off-lease computers are comparable to many people's home desktop, and blow most "special-purpose" thin client machines out of the water).  They even come with fully licensed versions of Windows, which, at $150, is oftentimes more expensive than these off-lease desktops!

Here are thin clients 3, 4, 5, and 6 (of 30) being tested on our highly sophisticated test bench (a.k.a. a dining table).

Construction Update #2 - Walls, walls, walls everywhere!

An amazing amount of work has been done to transform the space into a clinic these last couple weeks.  Indeed, there are steel studs everywhere now, and the drywall is starting to go up in certain places.

This third photo is particularly interesting.  For scale, the ceiling here is 16' height, and the opening is 12' x 5'

Online Booking

One of the ways our clinic seeks to offer our patients an improved experience is by offering real-time online bookings.

What we mean by this is that all appointments will be available to be scheduled online, with our online schedule fully up-to-date at all times.  For example, if a patient cancels an appointment, that timeslot will become available to other patients immediately.

Our hope is that this system will enable our patients to have better and more convenient access to their physicians.

Here's an example of how our online booking system will work.