One prescription for improving the health of the urgent care sector: AI and virtual emergency departments are cutting wait times in the real ones... Researchers programmed AI into an app to deter...
https://spon.ca/cutting-er-wait-times-theres-an-app-for-that/2024/03/30/
Three new medical schools and an innovative family medicine program look to alleviate a crisis in primary care... Team-based or multidisciplinary care is... an approach that the Canadian Medical ...
It’s actually physically impossible for a solo family doctor to keep up with all the needed acute, chronic and preventive care, let alone look after their many results and consult notes while r...
https://spon.ca/i-had-to-turn-another-patient-away-it-doesnt-have-to-be-that-way/2024/02/29/
A new report examines trends in Sweden, Norway, the United States, France and Great Britain, where the pursuit of profit by financial capital is systematically devouring public funding, eroding...
Although the Canadian federal government has invested over $2.1 billion developing health information technology (HIT), all 10 provinces still have their own separate HIT systems. Besides being ...
We recently estimated that dealing with those pressures and bringing back the quality of care in our hospitals to an acceptable standard would require a $1.25 billion annual investment after of...
The program will roll out over two years. By May 2024, everyone over the age of 65 who meets eligibility requirements will be able to apply... By the end of the year, qualifying disabled people a...
https://spon.ca/everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-canadian-dental-care-plan/2024/01/14/
As the health care crisis rages unabated across the country, it is nurses who are holding our health systems together through grit, determination and a shocking amount of overtime... Fixing the...
https://spon.ca/critical-nursing-shortage-puts-patients-at-risk/2023/12/30/
... this year’s reports on the health-care system are a reminder that spending less is not the same thing as spending well and that, in some cases at least, you need to spend more public money ...
Plagued by shortages of doctors and nurses and persistent emergency room closures, Ontario lacks a province-wide strategy to fix the problems, the watchdog agency said in a wide-ranging audit of ...