Despite making up only 5% of the study population in Saskatoon, high-cost mental health and addiction clients accounted for 35% of total healthcare spending. Their total…
Health in the News
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- NBHC Population Health
- NBHC Care Experience
Beginning in October, B.C. will be the first province to provide information about breast density to women and their doctors after their mammogram screening tests. Dense Breasts Canada says about 400,000 women in B.C. have dense breasts and many…
- NBHC Sustainability
Fraser Health is taking over ownership of privately-run MRI clinics in Abbotsford and Surrey, B.C., on Oct. 1. Both clinics will start providing publicly-funded exams within a month and all workers will become Fraser Health employees. B.C.'s…
- NBHC Engagement
The campaign aims to change the way cancer is viewed and to ensure people act early to improve their chances of survival. Research highlighted that fear of a potential cancer diagnosis continues to stop…
- NBHC Care Experience
The volunteer services and patient support for the Yukon Hospital Corporation say it’s been very successful in running a program called the "Morning Brew Crew". It started two years ago and has about 60 regular volunteers and the hospital now…
- NBHC Care Experience
Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. are encouraging employees to speak up about patient safety concerns. They…
- NBHC Sustainability
Unified Health opened what it's calling a community triage centre in Halifax on Sept. 23. At what the company's calling a pilot clinic, patients pay out-of-pocket for non-emergency care such as massage…
- NBHC Population Health
Two neurologists at the University of Saskatchewan suggest that in 40% of cases, an individual suffering from seizures is misdiagnosed as having epilepsy. That represents 2,000 patients in Sask., and perhaps up to 72,000 people across Canada.…
- NBHC Sustainability
Infoway says 1,500 physicians and 29 community pharmacies in Ontario and Alberta signed up for PrescribeIT in its first year. The system enables prescriptions to be transmitted electronically by…
- NBHC Sustainability
These positions will be spread between the Nova Scotia Health Authority and IWK Health Centre. The IWK says the positions will address needs in key specialty areas, improve access and reduce wait times for specialty services only offered at the…
- NBHC Population Health
The New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT) and the New Brunswick Trauma Program are integrating trauma care data into one data repository at NB-IRDT, a research institute at UNB. The health data will be used to…
- NBHC Care Experience
Through the Innovation Technology Payment, NHS England directly funds a group of innovations to spread them across the national health…
- NBHC Care Experience
A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information finds that patients who receive home palliative care are two-and-a-half-times more…
- NBHC Sustainability
In the last fiscal year, Calgary ERs had almost 30,000 visits from patients seeking mental health services. The co-author of a report into the province's mental health and addictions systems says the Alberta government isn't spending enough of…
- NBHC Care Experience
A test for viral infections that could reduce unnecessary antibiotic use and hospital admissions was demonstrated to European Respiratory Society. The procedure, known as point of care respiratory viral testing (POCT), was trialed in England. The…
- NBHC Sustainability
The Unified Health Community Triage Centre in Halifax doesn’t receive funding from the province but was launched as a pilot project to speed up waits for non-emergency medical care…