Marjo Johne
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 7/14/2021
Pharmacist-driven 'trunk' system makes Winnipeg's COVID-19 vaccine supersites super-efficient
Community pharmacists Arnold Chew and Carey Lai started as vaccinators with Manitoba's vaccine implementation task force. But after rolling out an innovative system for mass immunizations, they now lead the province's biggest, busiest and arguably most efficient COVID-19 vaccine sites. - 7/14/2021
BRAND-CONSCIOUS: Canadians want a choice of vaccines, says new survey
Ensuring pharmacists have access to a full range of COVID-19 vaccines could make all the difference for vaccine-hesitant Canadians, says the Canadian Pharmacists Association. - 7/13/2021
In doc we trust: Physicians moving the needle among vaccine-hesitant patients
More than 20% of Canadians have still not received their first COVID-19 vaccine. Physicians are playing a critical role in assuring patients who are afraid or worried about getting the jab. - 7/12/2021
Well Health: How a young upstart became the country's third largest EMR provider
In just two-and-a-half years, Vancouver-based Well Health Technologies went from providing OSCAR EMR software to about 200 clinics in B.C. to a user base of almost 11,000 physicians in about 2,200 sites across the country. With its recently launched app developer marketplace, Well Health aims to turn EMRs to platforms that clinicians can customize as easily as their iPhones. - 7/11/2021
Pathway Health gives pharmacists a more active role in medical cannabis
New partnerships with Sobeys owner Empire Company and PharmaChoice puts Pathway's cannabis management program in over 1,800 pharmacists across Canada. - 7/8/2021
Quebec pushing to mandate doctor reporting on patients who are unfit to drive
The province's Highway Code currently says doctors "may" report patients' health issue to the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec. But a review committee doesn't think that's good enough. - 7/7/2021
Manitoba doctor accused of inappropriately touching two patients agrees to leave medicine for good
Dr. Nihad Nagy William has surrendered his certificates of registration and practice and is banned permanently from working in any regulated health profession in Canada and in other jurisdictions. - 7/6/2021
Amid wildfires and devastation, B.C. pharmacist dispenses medicine—and kindness
"All these people need medication," a nurse handed Lillooet pharmacist Carmen Langdon a list of evacuees from the town of Lytton who had fled the burned-down town without their prescription drugs. So Langdon, who had lived and helped out through wildfires before, went to work. - 7/5/2021
Discrimination not a factor in hospital's refusal to treat black man who died hours later: SHA
The health authority has issued an apology and paid more than $81,000 in damages to Samwel Uko's family. Now it's asking the province's superior court to dismiss the family's civil suit. - 7/1/2021
Mole checks and prescription refills in ER? It's happening in Alberta
As doctors leave the province's 'hostile political environment' or retire from practice, their orphaned patients seek non-urgent care in emergency departments
