The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) says two-thirds of seniors take at least five different prescribed medications. It also contends that about half that number of seniors are taking at least one potentially inappropriate medication, putting
The Trusted Patient Coach app is being used by Southcoast Health hospitals to let patient or a designated family member communicate with their provider as they're preparing for a procedure. After discharge, clinicians monitor their patients’
The U.K.’s National Health Service is the largest purchaser of fax machines in the world. It’s been ordered by the U.K. health secretary to stop buying more and to stop using the machines entirely by April 2020, as part of an effort to modernize the
New Brunswick’s government tabled a $600-million capital budget with a focus on returning to balanced budgets by 2020 or sooner. The biggest spending in 2019-2020 is $321 million to maintain transportation infrastructure. Almost $124 million goes to
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