The U.K.'s Health Foundation highlighted four projects that are evaluating new approaches to using data for quality improvement. These are:
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The Ontario government says it'll table legislation requiring public disclosure of payments by pharmaceutical and medical device companies to health professionals, a move that would make it the first province to do so. Health Minister Eric…
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Vitalité Health Network has maintained its status of accredited organization from Accreditation Canada, following a survey of the Network's various points of service to assess services provided and determine if they met Canadian standards. The…
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The Newfoundland and Labrador government is moving forward with plans to incorporate midwives into the healthcare system, with the formal registration of Gisela Becker as a registered midwife with the Newfoundland and Labrador Council of Health…
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The provincial government will contribute $8.8 million to expand the integrated service delivery program, a mental health service model that was piloted in the Saint…
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The Canadian Patient Safety Institute' The Case for Investing in Patient Safety makes the case that investing in…
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The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) invested $8.5 million in 26 projects designed to improve the quality of life and care for older adults with dementia and cognitive health issues. The projects include:
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A professor at UBC's school of population and public health estimates the national economy could save $7 billion over five years if workplaces implemented programs that reduced rates of the following five modifiable risk factors by just 1%:
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The New Brunswick Heart Centre entered a five-year collaboration Horizon Health Network and Medtronic Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) with the goal of reducing wait times and improving access to care for its patients in 2016, with the goal of…
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The Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society launched an eight-week survey to gauge the impacts on patients in Ontario's government-funded IVF program, as well as staff working in the province's fertility sector. The study lead says the landscape…
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U.K. researchers report (sub. req.) that stronger investment in primary care would lead to significant savings for secondary care, finding that higher levels of capitation…
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Institute for Healthcare improvement Senior Director Cory Sevin co-authored a report that lays out a framework to guide practice facilitators - individuals trained…
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The think-tank contends that despite spending more on healthcare than almost every other comparable country with…
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U.S. caregivers are invited to create a CareMap - a hand-drawn picture showing all the people they care for as well as the people surrounding those individuals and their own…
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A report from U.K. charity National Voices assessing whether healthcare services in England are delivering…
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The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) issued a statement in which CMA President Dr. Laurent Marcoux called for the federal government to invest in seniors' care, guided by a pan-Canadian seniors' strategy with the goal of renewing of the entire…