New Brunswick's first registered midwives have started accepting clients in the Fredericton region. The province's midwifery demonstration site in Fredericton is managed by the Horizon Health Network. The province says midwives will give families
The Nova Scotia government states its $6.4-million investment to free up operating room hours, hiring more surgeons and creating a central booking system will reduce wait times for residents undergoing hip and knee replacements. It claims the funding
A month after protesters criticized the provincial government for putting a mental health emergency wing on hold, Saskatchewan's health minister says a temporary mental health assessment unit will be established in Saskatoon. The project received a
The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and leaders in medical education have developed tools to help physicians improve their diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills. The Assessment of Reasoning Tool (ART) is described as a
The American Medical Association is developing a big data analytics and clinical informatics platform to offer organizations a common data model to improve care coordination. Initial partners of the AMA's Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI)
Federal health minister Ginette Petipas Taylor will sit down with her provincial and territorial counterparts to discuss ongoing issues and it's expected the health implications of legalized marijuana and the response to the opioid crisis will
A report from Canada's Health Coalitions contends the recent bilateral health agreements promoted by the Trudeau government have come at a huge cost. The report provides a province-by-province breakdown of the shortfall between the funding contained
Nova Scotia is rolling out a two-pronged approach to recruiting doctors that will see staff from the province's Immigration Department join the Nova Scotia Health Authority at an international jobs fair for health professionals. The recruitment team
Abhi Mukherjee, Director of Finance at the University Health Network, writes that the healthcare system's funding mechanism is fueled by volume and the flow of sick patients, and imagines a scenario where the population didn't need so many hospital
The Montreal Economic Institute is recommending that politicians look to the operation of a Swedish hospital run by Capio, a private company, that is accessible to all and funded by the government at lower cost than public hospitals. Its Economic