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On the morning of August 14, a 20-foot-long piece of concrete fell from the third floor of a suburban Toronto office building where several large group practices are located and smashed into the ground below, luckily not injuring anyone. City inspectors, concerned about other pieces falling as well, immediately evacuated and cordoned off the entire building.

You might think this would spell disaster to the building’s two Family Health Teams and to the one preparing to move in in eight days. Without their records and computers and phones, how would they care for their patients? How would they even let patients know the building was closed? How would they refer patients appropriately until the building reopened?

Thanks to a cleverly planned, remotely hosted computer system, none of those problems turned out to be insurmountable, says Dr. Michelle Greiver, a family physician and researcher who was among the doctors who had to scramble to adapt when they learned their relocation plans might have to be put on hold.

Read the rest of this article in the latest issue of Parkhurst Exchange or on the magazine's website.

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