Since its creation last June, Shared Health was evaluating many health initiatives, including rural and remote health authorities’ proposed clinical cuts to meet the…
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Health in the News
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The program in Abbotsford, B.C., is studying the impact of the free foot clinic to vulnerable patients in the dialysis unit. Poor circulation and neuropathy means these patients are prone to developing open wounds and infections, putting them at…
- NBHC Care Experience
In 2016, the Alberta government unveiled a $3-million proposal to come up with a blueprint for hospital buildings in rural communities. However, the provincial health minister changed tack, saying the template she envisions for rural care is less…
- NBHC Care Experience
The Resource Navigation program will see University of the Fraser Valley students volunteering in a kiosk at the Abbotsford Regional Hospital where patients being discharged can access information about community resources. The program is a…
- NBHC Care Experience
The Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) rolled out an initiative that allows regional HIEs to share patient medical records across the nation. The…
- NBHC Population Health
Diabetes is usually treated with one medication, while other drugs and insulin are added if the disease worsens. This wait-and-see approach has been turned on its head by a study in which doctors treat patients aggressively from the start with…
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The Ontario government budgeted $5.47 million for 12 projects approved through its Health Technologies Fund.…
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Alberta Health Services reports 205 residents took advantage of physician-assisted death last year. In the last six months of 2017, there were 102 such deaths, one-third more than in the same period the year before, when the procedure first…
- NBHC Population Health
Moody’s Analytics report supports the idea that the social determinants of health significantly drive the…
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A government report found out-of-pocket expenses to medical and dental patients accounted for 20% of all healthcare spending in Australia, disadvantaging low income earners, chronic disease sufferers, the elderly and people in rural areas. The…
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A dementia-friendly ward at the Royal Free Hospital in London has been transformed to look like 1970s Hampstead High Street. The space was transformed into a "therapeutic and reminiscence space" for elder patients and to provide people with…
- NBHC Sustainability
Researchers examining frequent ED users at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital suggest ED-based care coordination can help hospitals reduce ED use, hospitalizations and costs for frequent ED users.
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U.S. healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente says a telestroke program has streamlined the health system's stroke care across 21 hospitals. The redesigned acute stroke workflow sees a dedicated telestroke neurologist manage all emergency stroke…
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The federal government will hire Ottawa-based Advanced Symbolics, which specializes in social media monitoring and artificial intelligence, to forecast spikes in suicide rates.
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E-STI testing is currently being implemented in the U.K. to meet increasing demand for STI testing. This trial, among people living in London, found…
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More than 4,400 prescription medications are now free for children and youth age 24 and under, the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation for Ontario families. Medications covered by…