News From Canada
'I Know That it Saved My Life’: Can Virtual Healthcare Ease Canada’s ER Crisis?
Wait times for diagnostic imaging are lengthy across the country, so a patient had to wait at least two months for the scan, but within hours of leaving the CT the appointment, the virtual-care physician was calling him. He had a mass on his cerebellum that needed to come out right away.
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88% of Benefits Plan Sponsors Satisfied with Virtual Healthcare Offerings
A majority (88 per cent) of benefits plan sponsors are very (34 per cent) or somewhat (54 per cent) satisfied with their organization’s virtual health-care offerings, up from nearly three-quarters (74 per cent) in 2021, according to the 2022 Benefits Canada Healthcare Survey.
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Modern Security for Future Healthcare
Security vulnerabilities have increased in the healthcare industry due to the evolution of medical technology and the rapid transition to electronic health records (EHRs). Since the onset of the pandemic, cyber criminals have honed in on this sector and are taking advantage of these modern access points.
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Securing Public Trust in Digital Healthcare
Canada’s Privacy Commissioners and Ombudspersons with responsibility for privacy oversight across the country call on governments, health sector institutions and health providers to show concerted effort, leadership, and resolve in implementing modern, secure and interoperable digital health communication infrastructure.
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A Canadian First: Montreal App is Redefining Accessible At-Home Healthcare
With hospital closures, worsening staffing shortages, and more than 800,000 people on the waiting list for a family doctor in Quebec alone, access to proper healthcare is becoming more and more difficult One local mobile application is hoping to ease some of that tension by bridging the gap between patients and healthcare practitioners.
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Nursing Students in Canada Need More Education about Digital Health: Study
Canada’s nursing school graduates are not as ready as they should be for the digital transformation happening in healthcare, according to a University of Alberta researcher. Nurses need better education to keep up with the fast pace of innovation — from robots at the bedside to virtual care and virtual reality treatments to electronic health records — not to mention research discoveries driven by artificial intelligence.
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New Mobile App Will Improve Access to Health Records
Health Gateway is a new, secure app version of the Health Gateway website that anyone can download from the Apple App Store or Google Play for Android mobile devices for free. Users will need to use their BC Services Card app to register and log in.
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Study Looks at Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Primary Healthcare
For this study, former graduate student Jaky Kueper, Lizotte and co-principal investigator Amanda Terry conducted 14 in-depth interviews with primary healthcare and digital health stakeholders in Ontario. Kueper, now a TechForward Fellow in AI at The College of Family Physicians of Canada, is the first-ever Western student to complete a combined PhD in epidemiology and computer science.
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Understanding Privacy’s Role in Enabling Interoperability
There are many challenges to enabling interoperability in healthcare within and across jurisdictions — there is a plethora of IT systems speaking different languages in a multitude of care settings across several jurisdictions, each with unique needs and requirements. A lot of work needs to be done — and is being done — to enable data to flow across these silos.
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