Overall and in the details, the contribution of HSN was widespread and considered largely beneficial to the health of the people and socio-economic well-being of communities in northeastern Ontario. [...] PAGE 1 SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION OF HEALTH SCIENCES NORTH TO NE ONTARIO A study on the socio-economic contribution of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) reported similar effects on communities and hospitals with the arrival of the medical school in northern Ontario (Hogenbirk et al. [...] In the quotes that we use to illustrate the findings, we have removed names and other identifying remarks and have not chosen to label the source to reduce the risk of accidental disclosure. [...] HSN’s role in the development of NEON was considered instrumental and all key informants mentioned that the ability of the community hospitals to purchase the necessary equipment in support of NEON and other IT initiatives such as the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), were greatly enhanced by HSN’s membership in the consortium. [...] One of the concerns, inferred from the comments but not explicitly expressed by key informants, was that the community hospitals could become too reliant on what HSN provided and then might be less able to negotiate agreements that provided the necessary services and fit with the budget of the community hospital.
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