xwave CMS Privacy and Security Policy
Clinical Management System Application Service Provider (CMS ASP)
An Application Service Provider (ASP) is an organization that manages and distributes software-based services and solutions to customers across a wide area network from a central data center.
A clinical management system (CMS) is a suite of software that enables physicians to manage their practices more efficiently by providing them with electronic means for billing for services, for registering patients and for scheduling patient appointments. A CMS also provides physicians with the means to move from paper medical records to electronic records. Electronic medical records provide physicians with quick access to a patient's critical information.
Under an agreement with OntarioMD (
www.ontariomd.com) , which is a subsidiary of the Ontario Medical Association (
www.oma.org) , and Smart Systems for Health Agency (
www.ssha.on.ca), which is an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care,
xwave provides CMS ASP services to Ontario health care providers.
As a CMS ASP,
xwave (
www.xwave.com) manages the clinical management system information system where subscribing Ontario physicians record and store their patients' personal health information. This means that
xwave is responsible for installing, operating and managing the necessary computer equipment at the SSHA data center and for managing and maintaining the CMS software. The ASP service is intended to permit authorized people to have access to the CMS virtually 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and to enable patient medical records to be available to physicians whenever they are needed.
