Public drug plan expenditures increased by an additional 1.9% in fiscal year 2016-17, following growth of 10.8% the previous year, reaching a total of $10.7 billion, according to a Patented Medicine Prices Review Board’s (PMPRB)…
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- NBHC Sustainability
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Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) streamlined the multidisciplinary assessment form for its ER so that it has 70% fewer questions. The centre expects the shorter form will counteract the increase in adults visiting its…
- NBHC Care Experience
Essex-Windsor EMS launched Vulnerable Patient Navigator program (VPN) 2016 to curb the number of frequent, non-emergency, 911 callers.…
- NBHC Care Experience
The Children's Hospital for Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa completed a three-year pilot project in which ambulances were modified so…
- NBHC Sustainability
Amazon is launching a clinic in the coming months for a small number of workers, with a goal of expanding in 2019. Apple, meanwhile, is in a hiring…
- NBHC Care Experience
Approximately 10% of the cancer drugs remained in IV tubing during treatment for almost 250 Horizon Health patients. Horizon said all patients or their families were informed by letter or phone call. The letter doesn’t indicate the time period…
- NBHC News
This column by retired health services executive and planner Jim Wolstenholme claims there has been no real healthcare progress because successive governments fail to make many of the necessary changes, even when they’re made aware of better…
- NBHC Engagement
Telus Health is partnering with U.K.-based Babylon Health to launch a virtual care app for the Canadian market. An English version will be produced first, with a French app available by 2019. Telus…
- NBHC Sustainability
Launched under the name…
- NBHC Sustainability
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says the healthcare sector will have to find ways to operate more efficiently as the province faces "difficult financial times." She believes the solution lies in system transformation and building…
- NBHC Engagement
Purdue Pharma and U.S. healthcare provider Geisinger have an ongoing wearable trial in which patients use an Apple Watch and iPhone equipped with a pain application (Pain Watch) to measure daily patient-reported pain scores and breakthrough pain…
- NBHC Sustainability
Federal Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott announced $68 million in funding over three years as part of efforts to transfer control over Indigenous health programs to First Nations. The funding will be directed to Indigenous communities…
- NBHC Care Experience
A recent bedsore-related death has prompted the province to require all long-term care facilities to immediately report the…
- NBHC Care Experience
The Scottish government will extend a community pharmacy minor ailments program (MAS) across the country following a pilot in Glasgow. As part of the pilot, pharmacists booked consultations with patients to treat minor ailments and illnesses,…
- NBHC Care Experience
The provincial government says the Family Practice Learning Centre (FPLC) is the first initiative of its kind that pairs people without a primary care provider with UBC family medicine residents. Interior Health collaborated with UBC's Faculty of…
- NBHC Population Health
Le rapport de l'organisme Children First Canada qui porte sur les enfants, leur santé et leur bien-être, dévoile que c’est au N.-B. et en N.-É. que l’on trouve les…