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Alberta Health Services says ER wait times will be available for users of Amazon's Alexa technology. The AHS Alexa Skill app will provide wait estimates for hospitals in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. AHS claims it's…
The Alberta Government will set aside an additional $11 million to add 20 paramedics in Calgary and Edmonton and a further 26 in smaller cities and towns to provide home care to seniors in non-emergency situations. Under the program, paramedics…
CMAJ says an Ontario court ruling means a physician personal beliefs are trumped by a patient's right for care. The court ruled that physicians who object to medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for moral or religious reasons must refer their…
CIHI says hospitals are gathering real-time data in an effort to improve patient flows and ensure resources are optimized. It highlights two approaches to the use of command centres in Ontario: one that is paper-based at Windsor Regional Hospital…
The B.C. government already cut medical service payments (MSPs) in half on Jan. 1. In its 2018 provincial budget, the governing NDP pledged to remove the premium…
As part of its mission to drive positive outcomes across the community, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare and nearby community-based organizations worked with two data software platforms. One, Pieces Decision Sciences, aims to improve outcomes within…
Professors and researchers from the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan developed a website portraying an interactive timeline of Saskatchewan's healthcare history.…
The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation, led by Baycrest Health Sciences, has up to $3 million available in the…
England NHS policy encourages general practices to implement alternatives to face-to-face consultations to improve access to healthcare and reduce GP workload. But University of Bristol researchers…
An obstetric and gynecology clinic in Charlottetown is using a whiteboard to inform patients of the cost of missed appointments, which totaled more than 18.5 hours of specialists' time in the month of December, 18.4 hours in November and 15.2…
A paper from the BC Care Providers Association (BCCPA) suggests an additional investment on the part of the provincial government of $110 million…
An online course (login req.) developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health addresses the stigmatization of people with mental health and…
The B.C. government says it'll increase the amount of care each senior in residential care receives by 20 minutes per day. The province's own guidelines are for a minimum of three hours and 36 minutes of hands-on care per resident per day. The…
Harvard Medical School research found that personality traits crafted from early life experience predict well-being and wisdom later in life. In order to look at whether personality traits in formative years related to personality growth or…
Infection prevention practices centered on hand hygiene (HH) protocols can save lives across all healthcare facilities, according to a study done in French nursing…
Amazon is looking to expand its healthcare supply chain business to become a major supplier for U.S. hospitals and outpatient clinics. The company is piloting a program with an unnamed Midwestern hospital system using its B2B marketplace, called…