The Alberta government will permit midwives to prescribe and administer a broader range of prescription drugs, including contraceptives and contraceptive devices. In hospitals, they'll be allowed to order and dispense benzodiazepines and narcotics
The Health Quality Council spent five years understanding wait times in the emergency department and found the issue has more to do with what’s going on elsewhere in the system than what’s happening in the ED. HQC’s ED Waits and Patient Flow team
Infoway says 1,500 physicians and 29 community pharmacies in Ontario and Alberta signed up for PrescribeIT in its first year. The system enables prescriptions to be transmitted electronically by integrating with EHRs and pharmacy management systems
All four political parties that won seats in the Sept. 24 provincial election promised to use the most highly trained nurses more often. Telegraph Journal’s Legislature Bureau editor John Chilibeck believes this means the province may to be ready to
The patient-centered initiative targeting outpatient antibiotic prescribing is part of Intermountain's commitment to the U.N.'s Antimicrobial Resistance Challenge. The U.S.-based healthcare provider will reduce inappropriate outpatient antibiotic use
Physical literacy goes beyond fitness and includes the motivation, confidence and knowledge to engage in physical activities that can help throughout life. The CHEO Research Institute in Ottawa says its research is evidence that children aged eight
Inspired by a program in the U.K. which prescribed activities such as bingo, gardening and visits to a coffee shop to patients, a pilot-project by the province has doctors prescribing social activities to people suffering from loneliness. Funded by
The University of Manitoba study found children and teens living with mental illness are less likely to graduate from high school, more likely to be involved in the justice system, experience suicidal behaviour and require income assistance in
Johns Hopkins University researchers developed an algorithm that can reduce the rate of patients who don't show up for scheduled medical appointments and increase appointment availability. Use of the tool allowed the Johns Hopkins Community
Umbrella Medical Clinic opened in September and intends to fill a gap in healthcare service by offering such services as transgender healthcare, to emergency contraception and HIV prevention. Beyond improving access to services, the doctor operating