Healthcare

Browser-based telehealth service may reduce cost of remote care
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. | GE Healthcare and Intel-GE Care Innovations have launched a new telehealth offering in Canada. The cloud-based application is designed to help patients access provider-designed care plans via a web browser instead of relying on specialized devices.
Only 48 hours left to register for Self-Care CE day
Online registration closes soon for the first-of-its-kind pharmacist education day on self-care and nonprescription topics.

Compassion on cancer journey earns awards for nurses

The draw of the oncology ward, even though it often means caring for dying patients, is so strong it attracted Kerri Drouillard to become a nurse and Debbie Lucier to return to the sometimes short but often close connection with patients.
What your patients are reading - Week of October 29, 2013
Patients Association of Canada rebrands itself as Patients Canada

TORONTO | The Patients Association of Canada is now called Patients Canada. President Sholom Glouberman says the association remains “deeply committed to giving patients a voice,” and to making their experiences with the healthcare system count.
Registered Nurses dedicated to providing knowledge-based care

Nurses have always been an integral part of ensuring that the health needs of you and your family are met. But in spite of all the great work they do, nurses will be increasingly called on to take a leadership role in our provincial health system.
Press Review - October 29, 2013

Check out our review of recent healthcare stories in the media - Top Story: Record-setting transplant patient still feels healthy after 25 years. Read this and
Canada's health-care spending growth rate is slowing down: CIHI

The growth rate of health-care spending is gradually slowing in Canada, with the nation spending about $6,000 on each citizen this year.
Euthanasia takes away the most fundamental human right to life

Even when it starts with the best of human intentions, it does not turn out well
Quebec nurses accredited at heaviest annual pace since 1970s

More new nurses received professional accreditation in Quebec during the year ended last March 31 than during any annual period since the 1970s, the province’s professional order says.

Browser-based telehealth service may reduce cost of remote care

Only 48 hours left to register for Self-Care CE day

Compassion on cancer journey earns awards for nurses

What your patients are reading - Week of October 29, 2013

Patients Association of Canada rebrands itself as Patients Canada

Registered Nurses dedicated to providing knowledge-based care

Press Review - October 29, 2013

Canada's health-care spending growth rate is slowing down: CIHI

Euthanasia takes away the most fundamental human right to life

Quebec nurses accredited at heaviest annual pace since 1970s