The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety developed StressAssess, an online survey tool to identify psychosocial hazards that can lead to…
Health in the News
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- NBHC Population Health
- NBHC Care Experience
The C.D. Howe Institute compared healthcare systems in 11 OECD countries and found Canada was ahead of only France and the U.S. on performance metrics. To remedy the perceived shortcomings of domestic healthcare delivery, the institute recommends…
- NBHC Population Health
The appointment comes after the release of a report on loneliness last year by the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness which found about nine million people report often or always…
- NBHC Engagement
A number of companies are already offering chatbots for healthcare. One doctor in Arizona has been using bots for administrative tasks, but his practice decided to also use this function for its annual flu initiative. During flu season, the…
- NBHC Sustainability
A Kaiser Permanente study finds cognitive behavioral…
- NBHC Care Experience
Six mental health and domestic violence agencies in London-Middlesex are working together on a…
- NBHC Engagement
Patients and healthcare providers have been encouraged over the past months to pledge to improve compassionate quality care in Ontario as part of Change Day Ontario. Almost 6,000 visitors made pledges…
- NBHC Care Experience
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins' Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality developed SPADE (Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of Diagnostic Error), an…
- NBHC Care Experience
The Ontario government will provide health services to homeless people at five Toronto shelters in a pilot project set to get underway later this year. The provincial health minister says mental health supports, chronic disease management and…
- NBHC Sustainability
This is the first study that takes looks at all the money spent on health versus all the money spent on social services. It finds provinces need to spend less on healthcare and more…
- NBHC Care Experience
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta embarked on a six-month research project looking into how best to integrate emerging health technologies into care delivery models. A spokesperson for the group says there's a fine line between a…
- NBHC Care Experience
Roots of Hope, a community-based suicide prevention project developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, will be initiated on the Burin Peninsula on the south shore of Newfoundland. The MHCC says the program has five main features:
- NBHC Care Experience
A report from the Rational Therapeutics and Medication Policy Research Group (RTMP) on medication appropriateness and access suggests a universal drug…
- NBHC Sustainability
A program in Guelph, Ont., provides a safe space for those experiencing substance abuse problems who aren't sick enough for hospital but still require medical supervision. Paramedics monitor the well-being of patients in the two-bed Supportive…
- NBHC Sustainability
Scientists at Stanford University have used AI to predict whether someone will die within three months to a year, to help doctors better recommend palliative care. Research has shown that 80% of…
- NBHC News
Dr. Sunita MacMullin told CBC News she was leaving behind about 1,900 patients, although she's willing to see them in Sussex if they can get there. She claims she was moving because other members of her physician group wouldn’t provide backup for…