Even though AI tools offer speed and convenience, they also pose unseen cyber-risks when sensitive health information is no longer controlled by the hospital.
If passed, the legislation would establish standards that companies developing electronic medical records must follow, allowing data to be shareable between healthcare providers and across provinces and territories.
Now that the CPSO physician register no longer shows any information on postgraduate training, one IMG who did her residency in Canada worries her patients may incorrectly conclude that their doctor has no Canadian training.
Ombudsperson Jay Chalke says involuntary admission is an ‘extraordinary power’ and the required safeguards ‘must be completed 100% of the time, in each and every case.’
An emerging model is quietly turning Canadian patient medical records, and patients themselves, into lucrative commercial assets – often without patients’ explicit knowledge or consent.
During their first public appearance since returning to Earth, the four astronauts refused Wednesday to say which one of them needed medical attention and for what reason.
Canadian health-tech company’s deployable unit links remote physicians with on-site nurses or technicians, packing more than 400 diagnostic tools into a single connected space.
