The provincial government has committed to flag the electronic medical files of children known to the child protection system, alerting doctors and nurses to that fact, as part of efforts to improve the communication between healthcare professionals
The owner of two nursing homes in New Brunswick says the eChart Healthcare app provides families access to regularly-updated information about their loved ones' lives and health. Staff enter data for each resident, including medical charts, past
The Friends of The Moncton Hospital Foundation and Horizon Health Network have opened a rooftop garden aimed at enhancing patient wellness. Located on the third floor of the Moncton Hospital, the garden will be an area for patients who have been
The provincial government is expanding an adult day program that gives caregivers respite while caring for loved ones at home. The program will expand the number of hours in Alberton, Summerside, Charlottetown and Souris, to add 40 more spaces each
The Ontario government says its online wait time tool will provide users with both the length of time between a referral and the first appointment with a specialist or surgeon and the time between the decision on a procedure and the date it's
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute made available Communicating After Harm in Healthcare guidelines to help healthcare organizations throughout the process of communicating after patient safety incidents that resulted in harm. The document can
The Canadian Medical Association, through its subsidiary Joule, will provide $150,000 in grants to five physicians for their medical innovations. Included are the following projects: In the later-stage category, the CMA will provide $50,000 to the
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement released a white paper, IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work, that aims to serve as a guide for healthcare organization leaders to ask colleagues at all levels of the organization, "What matters to you?"
Advocate Health Care says it was able to save more than $4.8 million costs through two nutrition models launched at four of its Chicago hospitals in 2014, having since enrolled more than 1,200 patients in the programs. Most of the savings stem from
eHealth Ireland has launched the eHealth Ireland Open Data Portal, which has more than 300 Open Data sources available to help users find and access data across the country's health sector. This includes information such as a health services