Clinics and digital health experts say forcing a single, province-wide EMR would be catastrophic and probably isn’t what is coming – but why ministry mum?
More than 70% of Ontario hospitals are forecasting deficits, and Health Minister Sylvia Jones has told them to come up with three-year plans to balance their budgets.
Dr. Ma organized 48 mass vaccination clinics in Kingston during the COVID-19 pandemic and was later ordered by OHIP to repay $600,962 because of alleged billing non-compliance.
The idea that fruit and vegetables might cause cancer sounds bizarre. For decades, studies have shown that people who eat more plants tend to live longer, healthier lives, with lower rates of heart disease, stroke and several common cancers.
When it comes to diagnostic test results, patient access to information has expanded rapidly. Responsibility for interpreting and acting on that information has not expanded in the same way.
Dr. Joss Reimer said they are all air passengers who shared flights with someone with hantavirus, but it's believed they didn't have close contact with anyone who was sick or sit near them.
Healthcare professionals, police and other front-line workers are aware of the dangers associated with strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence. However, experts are also warning of risks from so-called consensual sexual strangulation.
A new online survey suggests nearly a quarter of Canadians say they've declined to get a vaccine recommended by their doctor—and the data indicates most of them did so because they were concerned about potential side effects.
