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- 9/11/2012
New Brunswick joins CAPsource procurement program
SAINT JOHN, N.B. | In a decision to utilize a single proven process and lower costs when purchasing capital equipment, New Brunswick’s health shared services organization, FacilicorpNB, will join CAPsource. - 9/11/2012
Infoway investing in 19 outpatient EMR projects
Canada Health Infoway, along with the provinces, territories, and healthcare organizations, is investing in 19 outpatient electronic medical records (EMR) projects across Canada. - 9/10/2012
Report: All new nurses in U.K. could face checks on compassion and values
A government-commissioned review is likely to press for all new nurses and healthcare assistants to be screened for their values and ability to be compassionate, Nursing Times has been told. - 9/10/2012
Paid medication reviews launch in Nfld.
Following the June agreement signed by Newfoundland’s government and pharmacists’ association, the province’s prescription drug program has begun accepting claims for medication reviews. - 9/10/2012
Respected Ont. doctor becomes "high-level" drug dealer
Ontario MD guilty of 94 drug and fraud charges - 9/10/2012
Protesting Zimbabwe nurses return to their jobs
Eight nurses arrested on allegations of inciting violent protests against the firing of a popular Canadian doctor from a church mission hospital have been allowed to return to their posts, Zimbabwe court officials said Thursday. - 9/10/2012
Too many cooks, not enough chefs
If a patient asked me how prescribing works today, how should it work, and why are things the way they are, here’s the analogy I’d use. - 9/10/2012
Windsor public health nurses, health unit avoid strike with new contract
Windsor's public health nurses were ready with picket signs but - thanks to a positive turn in negotiations this week - they voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new contract. - 9/10/2012
Life as a nurse in a deadly city
The Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez was labelled Mexico's deadliest city, at the centre of a war on drug cartels. - 9/10/2012
Fake drugs: An increasingly tragic tale of international intrigue
Investigation reveals ease with which North America’s drug supply chain can now be polluted by Third World political and economic corruption.