ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 5/22/2013
New provincial association for technicians
As Saskatchewan moves toward regulation, a society for technicians is born - 5/22/2013
EMR provider first to partner with CPhA to improve drug safety
Survey shows electronic systems already showing $1.3 billion in efficiencies - 5/22/2013
DIVERSION: Ticked off in the great outdoors
Becoming another critter’s lunch is enough to make anyone a little twitchy - 5/22/2013
Conference Board gives 'A' grades to three provinces for overall health performance
A new report card from the Conference Board of Canada singles out three provinces — Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario — for ‘A’ grades in overall health performance. - 5/21/2013
E-prescribing should be reality by 2015
After years of talk about the benefits and challenges of implementing e-prescribing in Canada, it looks like it could finally become a reality in 2015. - 5/21/2013
Canadian healthcare wait times 'manufactured,' report says
CALGARY | Wait times in the Canadian healthcare system have been manufactured by out-of-date and technically corrupt approaches to capacity management and planning. That's the conclusion of "Full House," the feature article of the latest Six Sigma Forum, a peer-reviewed publication of The American Society for Quality. - 5/21/2013
Elderly most affected by H7N9 flu
27% death rate seen in Chinese study ‘may be underestimate’ - 5/21/2013
Healthtech launches EMR adoption solution among new services
TORONTO | Healthtech Consultants is launching new products and services the company says will transform healthcare, with innovative information management and technology solutions in EMR adoption, virtual health, clinical and business transformation, and rural and northern health. - 5/20/2013
Readers applaud Beth Israel Deaconess nurses who healed bombing suspect
I wrote in Sunday’s Globe about nine trauma nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who played a very private but critical role in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing: They cared for gravely wounded suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a heavily-guarded ICU, nursing him back to health.