After a successful pilot in Ottawa and Kingston, CANImmunize will be available across the province. The app, developed by the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, permits access to an individual's or their family's provincial immunization record. It
The REACH Institute program is being launched in Saskatoon by the continuing medical education division at the University of Saskatchewan. Twenty-five physicians from across the province will begin the interactive course in December. Following the
The Fraser Institute states that in 2018, Canadians could expect to wait 19.8 weeks for medically-necessary treatment. Nationally, wait times were longest for orthopedic surgery (39 weeks) and plastic surgery (28.5 weeks), while the shortest was for
A survey conducted for virtual care provider Medisys finds 71% of employer group benefit plan members says they'd be willing trade off other benefits if it meant access to healthcare professionals through an online or digital portal. The survey
Telus Health says the technical glitches affected users of its Med Access software in Alberta, B.C., N.L., N.S., Ontario and Saskatchewan over a one-year period ending in Nov. of 2018. Seventy percent of the patients affected were in N.L. Telus
NHS England says there’s growing evidence of the mental health risk new and expectant fathers face. As part of the expanded perinatal mental health program, partners of pregnant women and new mothers who are themselves suffering from anxiety
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives suggests seven ways the federal government could raise $10.4 billion annually to fund a national pharmacare program: Increase the GST to 1.5 percentage points to 6.5%; Increase the general corporate income
Research showed that for the 40 to 49 age group, screening of 1,000 women over seven years resulted in 294 false-positive results and prevented less than one cancer death. The guidelines from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care lets
Between Jan. 2016 and June of this year, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) estimates that over 9,000 Canadians died as a result of opioid use. Of the over 2,000 deaths which occurred in the first half of 2018, PHAC says 94% were the result of
Medavie Blue Cross notes productivity costs to employers from workplace mental health problems is around $56 billion annually, with 500,000 workers off work every week due to mental illness. It adds that organizations lose about 14% of their annual