Canada’s proposed G8 child and maternal health plan may have ignited a Parliamentary brouhaha over its failure to support funding for abortion but it is also drawing favourable reviews from …
Ontario must move faster with a series of legislative and regulatory measures in order to meet its commitment to create electronic health records for all residents by 2015, a senior …
The federal government’s failure to release $500 million in promised funding has slowed the next phase of the multibillion-dollar national effort to implement electronic health records (EHRs), says Canada Health …
According to an executive with the American health care giant Kaiser Permanente, electronic health records can dramatically improve quality of care and patient outcomes. But the principal investigator of a series …
Research indicates that carbapenum-resistant bacteria — which represent a disastrous threat for clinicians — is now prevalent in South Asia and moving into Europe and North America in the same …
As the United States Congress scrambles to iron the kinks out of its health reform legislation, America’s two most influential medical associations remain deeply divided over the merits of changes …
Airports in Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia, act as major gateways for infectious diseases, and the federal government must better manage health risks arising from international air travel, warns …
Federal refusal to include Aboriginal groups in the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network — the country’s main national public health advisory body — helped exacerbate pandemic (H1N1) 2009, health experts familiar …