EY's New horizons: Executive insights on the future of health explains healthcare organizations are being challenged to lower costs and improve outcomes while…
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Health in the News
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Umbrella Medical Clinic opened in September and intends to fill a gap in healthcare service by offering such services as transgender healthcare, to emergency contraception and HIV prevention. Beyond…
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A tool called HealthIM will soon be used by officers across nine police agencies to respond to calls involving someone experiencing a mental health crisis. The tool’s being put into place through a $310,000 investment by the province through the…
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Inspired by a program in the U.K. which prescribed activities such as bingo, gardening and visits to a coffee shop to patients, a pilot-project by the province has doctors prescribing social activities to people suffering from loneliness. Funded…
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The Health Quality Council spent five years understanding wait times in the emergency department and found the issue has more to do with what’s going on elsewhere in the system than what’s happening in the ED. HQC’s ED Waits and Patient Flow team…
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A program designed to help seniors with complex health needs stay in their homes longer earned the Canadian Frailty Network’s Conference Choice Frailty Innovation Award. It was chosen among programs dedicated to frailty in older adults.
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The program will …
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The patient-centered initiative targeting outpatient antibiotic prescribing is part of Intermountain's commitment to the U.N.'s Antimicrobial Resistance…
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This study from Scotland found a clinical pharmacist based in a GP practice saves about five hours of GP time per week in prescribing work. Clinical pharmacists were also found…
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While healthcare positions have long wait times for full-time employment in Sudbury, demand for personal support workers (PSWs) it at an all-time high. College Boréal has come up with a way to ease the shortage with a pilot project helping…
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Telus Health says the funding will enable it to expand its Health for Good program to communities in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia…
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The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is consulting stakeholders such as residency program leaders, governments and regulators to determine if physician residencies should be extended beyond two years. The association states there's a…
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Despite making up only 5% of the study population in Saskatoon, high-cost mental health and addiction clients accounted for 35% of total healthcare spending. Their total…
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The Promoting Health Equity: Mental Health of Black Canadians…
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This University of Alberta and ICES study of hospitalized adults over age 65 in Ontario found those who were discharged with home care were the most likely to be readmitted. Nearly 20%…
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The volunteer services and patient support for the Yukon Hospital Corporation say it’s been very successful in running a program called the "Morning Brew Crew". It started two years ago and has about 60 regular volunteers and the hospital…