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NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health system in the U.S. It started the eConsult pilot in 2016 and has scaled up the program. About 51,000 referrals were made through the tool since the pilot began. The eConsult platform is…
The Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance gave Canada a D+ in overall physical activity and sedentary behaviour, and a D in the newest indicator, physical fitness. The…
The Alberta government introduced legislation that would establish a self-regulating body for mental health professionals…
North York General Hospital's (NYGH) ED sees more than 110,000 emergency visits a year. After evaluating the number of lab tests ordered in the hospital, it was found that about 40% came from the ED. Many of the tests were unnecessary and being…
A professor of family medicine at UBC conducted an informal survey of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) service providers and found that only 14% of applicants are turned down. Of those, the reasons are inability to make the decision (39%),…
U.S. Centers for Disease Control researchers found adults aged 25 to 64 years who were diagnosed with diabetes during the study period had increased medical…
This CMAJ analysis suggests that most of the $9.7 billion required to fully fund a national pharmacare program should come from federal revenues. It explains that of the total cost of $23.2 billion for pharmacare, $13.5 billion could come from…
The province is injecting $5.3 million to perform at least 1,000 more hip and knee replacement surgeries in 2019 - a 25% increase. It will also fund 2,000 additional cataract surgeries next year, comparable to a 16% increase. This year,…
The experiment in France seeks to change how elderly patients are cared for. The $18,000 robot's being used at a nursing home to keep seniors occupied and to take the lead in exercises. However, nursing staff also viewed by some as a superfluous…
Health PEI is piloting a tele-rounding model to support in-patient care at Western Hospital with telehealth company Maple. The company uses a tele-rounding platform for physicians who are licensed in PEI but…
Under an expanded scope of practice, Alberta nurses working in travel clinics, workplace health and safety clinics and for STI programs will be allowed to order X-rays for patients or prescribe medications. They won't be permitted to write…
Manitoba's health minister claims the cash infusion will permit about 1,000 extra hip and knee replacements to be performed next year, a 25% increase from 2018's expected total. As well, the number of cataract surgeries should increase by about 2…
Many seniors spend weeks to months in a hospital bed, acquiring new health problems and disabilities, only to find themselves living in a nursing home. Health experts claims the problem is that hospitals are better suited to care for healthy…
Ongoing research by UBC estimates that patients who borrow money to buy prescription drugs are typically younger, with lower household incomes, chronic medical conditions and no insurance. Respondents aged 19-34 were 3.5 times more likely to…
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) estimates that Canadians will spend $33.7 billion on prescription medications this year. The 4.2%…