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A director of the digital psychiatry program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston says using chatbots for mental health is an innovative approach to increase access to care. As examples, he cites an app called Karim that counsels…
Following a review by NHS England of treatments it deems shouldn't be prescribed, several medications and vaccination drugs are set to be cut from a prescription list in a plan to save almost $350 million per year. The NHS drew a…
The country’s Ministry of Health developed the clinical guidelines for primary healthcare…
In the U.S., high-alert medications are identified subjectively through national safety organizations, error reporting, expert consensus and literature. To improve the situation, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) developed a…
Harvard Medical School researchers found U.S. Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Modifier Program, designed to improve…
Using data from the 2016 census, StatsCan finds that 53% of men 65 or older did some work in 2015, up from 38% in 1995. Full-time employment for elderly men also increased: from 15% in 1995 to 23% in 2015. Women are also working past normal…
A Saskatchewan physical therapist says the provincial government should implement multidisciplinary pain clinics, believing there's too much reliance on pharmacological remedies for relief from chronic pain. She admits that the main approaches to…
The report by the OECD and WHO on State of Health in the EU suggests more prevention, improved primary care and an integrated, patient-centred approach is the best way to making health…
The province is expanding the Alzheimer Society's First Link program to provide 14,000 people diagnosed with dementia, and their care partners, with a First Link Care Navigator.…
The top two complaints reviewed Ontario’s Office of the Patient Ombudsman was from by patients with concerns over their discharge process.
A study from the Conference Board of Canada suggests that workers who receive the optimal mental health treatment gain…
In this white paper, Mercer explains that healthcare delivery was stable the past four decades,…
During Women's Day at a patient-centered medical home in Nebraska, patients get a manicure along with their routine screenings. It's one of the ways Midwest Regional Health operates as a patient-centered medical home and took steps to do a…
The Vancouver facility is the first in B.C. to implement the technology from Toronto-based patient engagement software company SeamlessMD. The software provides patients with reminders leading up to surgery, a…
Nearly half of all cancer deaths and more than 40% of cancer cases are attributable to potentially modifiable lifestyle factors, according to a…
The team came up with a light system on the ceiling outside each room, using them to signal what needs to be done in each room. Purple means the room is clean and ready for the next patient. Orange means the patient is out having X-rays taken.…