Scientists at Stanford University have used AI to predict whether someone will die within three months to a year, to help doctors better recommend palliative care. Research has shown that 80% of…
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Dr. Sunita MacMullin told CBC News she was leaving behind about 1,900 patients, although she's willing to see them in Sussex if they can get there. She claims she was moving because other members of her physician group wouldn’t provide…
- NBHC Care Experience
The U.K.'s Care Quality Commission (CQC) currently rates hospital care, social care and GPs. Under the new plan, it will rate 800 more providers who will be required to display their rating on…
- NBHC Care Experience
The Fraser Institute’s report warns that if current trends continue, Canada likely won’t close the gap in the coming years either. It finds that…
- NBHC Population Health
Japan, the country with the longest life expectancy, is rarely included in cross-country comparisons such as this one. In this study, researchers examined the relative contributions of social and behavioral factors on the differences in survival…
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Atlantic House Calls is a fee-for-service healthcare practice that began its operations in May 2017 in Saint John. It aims to serve patients with mobility issues, anxiety issues, those who don't…
- NBHC Care Experience
The team of four doctors in Oromocto, who are the first to operate under the Family Medicine New Brunswick model, will be responsible for approximately 4,800 patients. The collaborative care team is a new approach for the province, as a similar…
- NBHC Care Experience
The university’s pharmacist-led primary care clinic opened in in 2013. It was created to develop models of…
- NBHC Care Experience
The provincial agency that monitors the health system and recommends whether or not services or devices should be publicly funded sent a report…
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Four chronic pain sites in Ontario will start using Manage My Pain, an app that can help patients with chronic pain better manage their symptoms and communicate with their physicians outside a clinic and…
- NBHC Sustainability
The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in northwestern Ontario has been over capacity by about 70 patients. To better deal with the flu season…
- NBHC Population Health
The research of middle-aged U.S. adults compared census tract data on socioeconomic deprivation and heart failure rates. The data included neighbourhood-level variables…
- NBHC Care Experience
In the 12 years since it was opened, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine reports that 94% of family medicine graduates who do their residency in the North practice there, while two-thirds of all graduates opt to work in remote and rural areas…
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It's reported that since 2010, surgeons at public hospitals removed 2,363 gastric bands that were implanted at private clinics. At a cost of between $3,000 and $14,000 per removal, it's estimated the cost of the post-op surgeries to the taxpayer…
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A report for the B.C. government finds that the implementation of an EHR system in Nanaimo is plagued by…
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Researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics that preventative telemedicine could play a key role in helping school-aged children with asthma manage…