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The Ontario government is turning four of its surplus buildings into community hubs to provide numerous public services to locals under one roof. Under the program, the provincial government will provide ongoing operating and maintenance costs at…
The e-health technology, used to treat students with mental health issues at Memorial University since 2015, is being offered throughout the province. The province is the first in the country to launch Therapist Assistance Online (TAO). The…
Quality improvement (QI) is advocated as one way of addressing problems with healthcare. But this report from RAND researchers finds its effectiveness is still showing mixed results. The reasons for this, it explains, is that QI is done in…
A report from the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) uses data from…
A Dutch study found men responding to an early retirement offer were 2.6 percentage points less likely to die over the next five years than those who did not retire early. An…
In 2016, Massachusetts-based non-profit Atrius Health conducted 251 empathy forums, training 90% of its staff in 90-minute sessions to integrate empathy into their daily work. The effort, the provider claims, resulted in an increase in patient…
The director of hospitals, emergency departments and alternate level of care for an LHIN in southwestern Ontario praises the Intensive Hospital to Home pilot project.…
A poll for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada finds 68% of respondents would feel helpless if they or a loved one were given a blood cancer diagnosis. The class of illnesses includes leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma or Hodgkin's disease.…
St. Catharines' Brock University researchers say almost half of all doctors’ appointments do not start on time. In two separate studies, they found…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins' Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality developed SPADE (Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of…
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…