Canada’s health information strategy is overly focused on the development of a national infostructure and underserves the needs of physicians and patients, provincial administrators say following release of a major …
Billions of dollars are being squandered in Canadian purchasing of health software for reasons of industrial policy, which is leading to disastrous technical problems and vast overpayments to technology companies …
Industry forecasts indicate that Canadians will soon face a marketing avalanche to persuade them to purchase personal genetic test kits. But while American officials are moving to regulate do-it-yourself genetic …
Fifteen months after the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) terminated its national committee dedicated to tackling antibiotic resistance, the federal government continues to resist calls for a new national …
Microbiologists are urging that Canada ramp up its surveillance of another strain of bacteria — carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC) — by screening Canadians who’ve been hospitalized in the United States, Israel and …
The contrast is startling. The United States government recently adopted regulations that will compel — and generously pay — American physicians to make “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs). …
