Harvard Medical School researchers found U.S. Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Modifier Program, designed to improve the value of care by rewarding doctors for their performance, failed. The findings raise doubts about whether the Merit-based Incentive
In this white paper, Mercer explains that healthcare delivery was stable the past four decades, the next eight years are poised for disruptions as rising costs and government cutbacks continue. One innovation is personalized medicine, which Mercer
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 list of "wasteful"
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 systems resilient. The WHO also states that all this needs to be
The province's health networks found there were over 200 hospitalizations for people between the ages of 12 and 24 over the last five years due to alcohol intoxication. From 2012-2013 to 2016-2017, Horizon Health recorded 186 hospitalizations of
New York-based design firm CannonDesign will begin the planning process for the new mental health and addictions campus that will replace Hillsborough Hospital on P.E.I. The province is investing $500,000 over the next two years for this work through
In joining the Choosing Wisely campaign, the Canadian Pharmacists Association compiled a list of six common practices and therapies that may be unnecessary and could potentially harm patients. The CPhA's recommendations include: Don't use a
Health Canada says stakeholders can offer their input into the federal government's law legalizing cannabis on July 1, 2018. As part of the consultation process, Ottawa released its proposed approach to regulating cannabis to serve as a framework for
The Human Development Council’s report suggests the province continues to have among the highest youth poverty rates in the country. The report indicates one in five youth are living in poverty. The statistics are higher for Aboriginal youth in the
A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information determines that in 2016, 21.5 million prescriptions for opioids were dispensed in Canada, a 6.8% increase from 2012. However, the amount of the class of drugs dispensed dropped over that