The province is expanding the Alzheimer Society's First Link program to provide 14,000 people diagnosed with dementia, and their care partners, with a First Link Care Navigator.…
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Harvard Medical School researchers found U.S. Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Modifier Program, designed to improve…
- NBHC Population Health
Using data from the 2016 census, StatsCan finds that 53% of men 65 or older did some work in 2015, up from 38% in 1995. Full-time employment for elderly men also increased: from 15% in 1995 to 23% in 2015. Women are also working past normal…
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A Saskatchewan physical therapist says the provincial government should implement multidisciplinary pain clinics, believing there's too much reliance on pharmacological remedies for relief from chronic pain. She admits that the main approaches to…
- NBHC Population Health
A study from the Conference Board of Canada suggests that workers who receive the optimal mental health treatment gain…
- NBHC Care Experience
The top two complaints reviewed Ontario’s Office of the Patient Ombudsman was from by patients with concerns over their discharge process.
- NBHC Sustainability
The Canadian Association of Physician Assistants published a report card in which it claims only three provinces, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, are doing…
- NBHC Sustainability
In this white paper, Mercer explains that healthcare delivery was stable the past four decades,…
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During Women's Day at a patient-centered medical home in Nebraska, patients get a manicure along with their routine screenings. It's one of the ways Midwest Regional Health operates as a patient-centered medical home and took steps to do a…
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The Vancouver facility is the first in B.C. to implement the technology from Toronto-based patient engagement software company SeamlessMD. The software provides patients with reminders leading up to surgery, a…
- NBHC Population Health
Nearly half of all cancer deaths and more than 40% of cancer cases are attributable to potentially modifiable lifestyle factors, according to a…
- NBHC Care Experience
The team came up with a light system on the ceiling outside each room, using them to signal what needs to be done in each room. Purple means the room is clean and ready for the next patient. Orange means the patient is out having X-rays taken.…
- NBHC Sustainability
A report from the Conference Board of Canada forecasts that by 2035, the country will need…
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As part of the study, planners mapped out geographic areas based on where people live. It revealed that within Winnipeg, 45% of residents travel outside their…
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MyCCath is a web-based IT solution for clinicians at the Health Sciences Centre for referring patients to the cardiac catheterization laboratory services. Eastern Health expects the procedure will expedite referrals for procedures at the lab,…
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Based on report by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, the College of Family Physicians of Canada suggests annual checkups for healthy people aren’t necessary and can often cause…