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- 2/16/2012
GE Healthcare-Microsoft joint venture to be called Caradigm
The recently announced joint venture between General Electric’s healthcare IT business and Microsoft will be known as Caradigm. - 2/16/2012
Press Review - February 17, 2012
- 2/16/2012
Hospital implements credentialing for visiting vendors
Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital in Burlington, Ont., has awarded a three-year contract to Vendor Credentialing Services Canada to provide credentialing, compliance and an access program for external vendors. - 2/16/2012
Advocates, nurses eye senior care reforms in BC
A report from B.C.'s Ombudsman on senior care in the province is fuelling nurses' hopes for reduced workloads, for standardization of care across the province among senior advocates and for stability in care homes through an end to contracting of services. - 2/16/2012
Champix may help reduce alcohol consumption
Smoking-cessation drug varenicline (marketed as Champix in Canada) may have potential as a means of reducing alcohol consumption - 2/16/2012
DIS elevating pharmacy practice: Infoway's chief exec
In the first of a series of rotating blogs on the clinical value of health IT, Infoway's Richard Alvarez discuses some of the positive impacts drug information systems have had on community pharmacies. - 2/16/2012
Scarborough Hospital to cut 60 RN jobs
Union officials said the hospital notified them Wednesday that 60 registered nurses will lose their jobs in the coming months. - 2/15/2012
Alberta group critical of announced reforms
Pharmacists supporting an online advocacy campaign have issued a media release warning that the province’s recently announced drug plan reforms will have a detrimental impact on the services that pharmacists provide Albertans.