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America's Essential Hospitals will undertake a three-phase research project aimed at improving patients' trust in their providers. The goal of the initiative is to build guidelines and policies that hospitals can use to boost patient trust,…
More and more healthcare providers are investing in data analytics for research, to gain insight into their business and clinical operations and improve patient care and population health efforts. South Dakota-based Sanford Health, a 44-hospital…
Infoway’s report provides a picture of attitudes toward digital health services. It shows more people want access these services and points to a gap between this desire and their ability to access services online. The report shows 73% don’t have…
The Bonnyville Health Centre was recognized by AHS with the President’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement and Quality Improvement for implementing the Commitment to Comfort Project. The…
A Statistics Canada study found the majority of Canadian seniors are more satisfied with their lives than other age groups. On a scale from one to…
In a CMAJ commentary (sub. req.), two Toronto doctors argued patient portals should be universally available as part of patient care across Canada. The records patients access through portals…
A Horizon client was inspired to create the Healing Books Project because of the support she found in self-help and therapeutic books while in treatment for PTSD. The…
A report from the B.C. Seniors Advocate suggests seniors living in privately-run care homes are:
An internal Alberta Health Services (AHS) assessment of the health organization's EHR system shows individual health data is vulnerable to outside security threats. The Alberta Netcare Portal, an electronic system that gives healthcare providers…
Champlain BASE (Building Access to Specialists through eConsultation), known as eConsult, offers doctors and nurse practitioners in Ontario the online version of a quick chat about a puzzling…
A flurry of suicides in the province’s Grand Bank and Burin Peninsula region prompted outcry from residents, demanding better availability of mental health and addictions services. One year later, the provincial government announced changes in…
A report from the Fraser Institute suggests a family of four with a household income of $138,008 will pay $12,935 this year for…
Manitoba’s Southern Health-Santé Sud VP of Medical Services, Dr. Denis Fortier, outlined statistics for ERs throughout the Regional Health Authority. The top reasons people were coming into the ER was for abdominal pain, shortness of breath or…
A non-profit membership organization called Bay to Sound Neighbors was formed in Mid Cape, Mass. to help seniors in Dennis and Yarmouth age in place as long as possible. The organization aims to…
Results from a survey will inform P.E.I.'s Chief Public Health Office's responses to the legalization of cannabis in the fall. Island residents over the age of 16…
B.C. seniors' advocates say they have high hopes the Minister for Seniors portfolio will streamline services across Canada. Hamilton MP Filomena Tassi was named to the post, dedicated to Canada's aging population. Seniors advocates in B.C. say…