MONTREAL – Preventing diabetes and improving the quality of care and knowledge to treat the Quebecers suffering from this disease is the mission of the CHUM’s Centre d’expertise en diabète (CED), made possible by the financial support of Novo Nordisk through a $5 million donation to the Fondation du CHUM.
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TORONTO – St. Michael’s Foundation has announced a $1-billion campaign to reinvent the patient care experience after a recent survey conducted by Leger Canada revealed the majority of Canadians (68 per cent) say they believe healthcare needs an overhaul. The survey – which was commissioned by the Foundation – also revealed that 46 per cent of respondents say they believe the pandemic worsened Canadian healthcare, and feel there is room for improvement.
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SUDBURY, Ont. – Addressing healthcare challenges and service gaps in northern Ontario are among the top priorities of a major new plan by the Ontario Medical Association to transform the province’s struggling healthcare system.
Prescription for Northern Ontario, released by the OMA, is an ambitious action plan containing 12 recommendations to address the unique healthcare challenges in the north, including:
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TORONTO – Improving access to healthcare, including shorter wait times and more doctors, is the top healthcare issue for Ontarians, according to an online survey by the Ontario Medical Association.
Almost 8,000 Ontarians from 600 communities across the province took part in the survey, which asked them to identify their healthcare priorities and how healthcare in their community could be improved.
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The Commonwealth Fund’s 2021 report comparing the healthcare systems of 11 developed countries ranked Canada in 10th place, ahead of the United States, which was at the very bottom. Finishing ahead of the U.S. is nothing to be proud of, contends Dr. Paul Woods, a former president and CEO of London Health Sciences Centre.
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TORONTO – Voyce, an organization specializing in language interpretation services for healthcare patients, has allied with Trillium Health Partners (THP). Voyce’s virtual language interpretation app will be piloted in the diagnostic imaging (DI) unit of THP’s Mississauga Hospital site, marking the first time this innovative technology has been used in a Canadian hospital. Watch a video demo of the app.
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KINGSTON, ON – Novari Health announced that its technology will be used by Hawkesbury General Hospital (HGH) to facilitate the sharing of surgical wait lists with other regional hospitals. HGH will be sharing wait list data from its Epic medical record system with The Ottawa Hospital, Queensway Carleton Hospital, Hôpital Montfort and Cornwall Community Hospital to provide regional insight and coordination capabilities.
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FREDERICTON, N.B. – Leading full-suite Canadian systems integrator, MOBIA, of Halifax, announced today that its SurgeCon software has been selected by Horizon Health Network (Horizon) to help address emergency department (ED) flow challenges, improve patient wait times, and manage patient surges.
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VANCOUVER – Two out of three Vancouver physicians surveyed in a new UBC study faced burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers from UBC’s faculty of medicine reviewed survey responses from 302 internal medicine physicians who worked for Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital between August and October 2020.
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CHICAGO – The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) has recognized 89 of an eligible 607 hospitals participating in the adult program for achieving meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2019. Of those 89 hospitals, 12 are Canadian facilities.
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