Ontario has selected William Charnetski (pictured) as the province’s new Chief Health Innovation Strategist. Charnetski is an accomplished national and global executive with over a decade of experience in developing integrated health solutions in Canada and around the world in the global pharmaceutical industry.
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VICTORIA – BC’s auditor general, Carol Bellringer (pictured), has issued a scathing report after auditing the Panorama Public Health System. “Panorama has been impacted by defects from the start. It is inefficient to use, burdensome to public health staff, and requires ongoing financial support,” said Bellringer.
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EDMONTON – Alberta’s NDP government has ordered Alberta Health Services to cancel the award of a $3 billion laboratory services contract to a private-sector firm from Alberta. The contract had been given last year under the previous government to Australian based Sonic Healthcare for the provision of a “super-lab” in the capital region.
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QUEBEC CITY – The Quebec government is ordering hospitals and other health facilities to slash $150 million from their budgets for medical tests, imaging scans and procedures to patients that it has judged are not “pertinent to care.”
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OTTAWA – Three federal agencies, including Canada Health Infoway, should be merged into a new organization, called the Healthcare Innovation Agency of Canada, to spur the modernization of healthcare across the country. That’s one of the main recommendations of the federal government’s Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, which was delivered last week.
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TORONTO – Three hospital workers have been charged under Ontario’s health privacy law for unauthorized access to former mayor Rob Ford’s (pictured) medical records after he was diagnosed with cancer.
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TORONTO – An arbitrator has ruled that eHealth Ontario, the provincial electronic health records agency, must pay CGI Information Systems $26.9 million to compensate for its work on a registry of diabetes patients axed in 2012.
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TORONTO – Dr. Danielle Martin is a family physician and innovative vice-president at Women’s College Hospital, whose firm grasp and defence of Medicare, Canada’s beloved universal healthcare system, famously won her the day at an inquisition-like U.S. Senate committee hearing in Washington last year.
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TORONTO – The provincial government is adopting all six recommendations from the Ontario Health Innovation Council (OHIC) to support more Ontario-made health technologies, improve patient care and spur economic growth. As part of the plan, it will establish a new $20 million Health Technology Innovation Evaluation Fund to support made-in-Ontario technologies.
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VICTORIA – New technology specifically geared to support independence for those with physical and cognitive disabilities is under development at CanAssist, thanks to $3 million in funding from the British Columbia Ministry of Health.
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