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Council on Health Promotion / BY: William Liu, BHSc Early online
... Recently, this formidable tool has made strides in health care. While AI solutions expand and work toward ... surge to ensure effective and safe implementation in our health care system.  AI in health care is developing ... to address these concerns—for example, automatic SOAP notes, where AI listens in on a patient encounter, analyzes ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD April 2022
... Then one day I was introduced to the idea of the community health centre (CHC) model: Community Health Centres are created by not-for-profit organizations ... STEPS, allowing all of the clinicians to access and make notes in the same EMR; therefore, the continuity of care is ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) September 2021
... to stay home and bang pots at 7 p.m. daily in tribute to health care heroes. The spider-bitten, no longer fearful of ... of the royal crest of England. ¶ I wish each of you health and happiness as we and the public we serve emerge ... elevatum pressura sanguinem ) and those in need of work notes ( litteras excusationem ab opereor ) or prescription ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2021
... Children’s and Women’s, BC Cancer, Providence Health Care, and the UBC Clinical Research Ethics Board. ... with UBC can get started at www.rise.ubc.ca/guidance-notes-and-tutorials . Acknowledgments Dr Dunne would like to ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD November 2019
... to her GP, they only discussed them in their consultation notes. Third, for various reasons, she often had her CT scans ... allowed to do so. The responsibility for knowing your own health history should be shared between you as the patient and your health care provider. Steps are being taken to allow patients ...
Editorials / BY: Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC November 2018
... or obese.[ 1 ] DC estimates that the cost to the BC health care system of diabetes-related hospitalizations, ... doing about the present danger and anticipated tsunami of health care costs? The Diabetes Charter for Canada[ 7 ] has ... conflicting recommendations for diabetes management and notes that Therapeutics Initiative messages disseminated to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Charuka Maheswaran, MD May 2018
... to lack running water than other Canadians.[ 3 ] Boyd notes that the “disparity between water quality on and off ... as they see fit.[ 4 ] Because of the Canada Labour Code, Health Canada has installed water treatment systems for their employees (sent to provide health care for local peoples) so that they can have access ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS March 2018
... for breast cancer of 88%,[ 1 ] while an American source notes that patients with stage I disease are currently felt ... Brenda Lau, and Alan Nichol use their experience in Fraser Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority to address some of the physical ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2016
... glance at the referral form and then send it back to the health region for booking. Another similar frustration is to ... short-term/long-term disability updates, medical EI, notes for physiotherapy/massage/work ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Kelly Mayson, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... initiative with representation from all regional health authorities that sought to implement several ... Services Committee, a partnership of the Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. Translating evidence-based medicine ... techniques for colorectal surgery. These clinical guidance notes have been reviewed and shared with the BC ...