An American Hospital Association playbook details how healthcare organizations can create community partnerships to drive patient engagement and an overall culture of health. The playbook includes insights from 10 hospital-community partnerships
U.S. health organizations are asking general questions to those visiting doctors' offices, seeking data about some of the social determinants of health. These include whether patients have trouble paying their bills, feel safe at home or have enough
First Nations people in B.C. are five times more likely to experience an overdose and three times more likely to die from one, according to data. The statistics confirm what Indigenous leaders in the province have suspected for months, that their
CIHI’s report Alcohol Harm in Canada: Examining Hospitalizations Entirely Caused by Alcohol and Strategies to Reduce Alcohol Harm explores hospitalizations that are entirely caused by alcohol. It found that last year there were more than 77,000
Global News looks at the development of the Wilson Sarcoma Research Fund, which would create a global database of tissue samples. It woud be a game-changer in facilitating research to help patients with rare cancers and, hopefully, finding a cure
Alberta Health Services unveiled a seven-month pilot program for primary care physicians and nurse practitioners to consult with opioid dependence specialists through a phone-in advice service. It's believed that patient outcomes relating to opioid
According to Ambulance New Brunswick data, paramedics in the province waited for nearly 1,000 hours last year to unload their patients, these "offload delays" are logged whenever paramedics wait more than 25 minutes for hospital staff to take over
The increase in birth tourism has led to changes in hospital policy in Canada, and has doctors facing some delicate ethical issues, Maclean's reports. Some doctors are hesitant to deliver a baby to a foreign national because if something goes wrong
Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Jersey has taken a leap into the future with the implementation of a LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robot that emits waves of ultraviolet light to destroy hard-to-kill bugs in hard-to-clean places. The Xenex robot
A recommendation against public funding for robot-assisted prostatectomies has physician leaders warning Canada could fall even further behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to offering cutting-edge medical procedures. In its first