The Ottawa Hospital has become University HealthSystem Consortium’s second non-U.S.-based full member. The Health Roundtable Limited in Australia was the first.
Alberta now has one global set of medical staff bylaws, as changes hammered out in 2010 swing into force. The changes affect all physicians who have appointments at Alberta Health Services’ facilities and organizations.
Alberta is launching a new physician practice-readiness assessment process for international medical graduates (IMGs), designed to make up for the shortcomings of the previous process.
Richard C. Alvarez, president and chief executive officer of Canada Health Infoway, will be one of the keynote speakers at Global E-Health Forum 2011, Oct. 11-13 in Hamburg, Germany.
