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News&Notes December 2017
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need ... this program.  This article has been peer reviewed. News&Notes Special report: Rural echocardiography in northern BC: ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Damon Ramsey, MD December 2017
... the terms electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) can be used interchangeably, we have used ... to go beyond the medical and address the broader total health of a patient. EHRs have largely fulfilled their duty ... prescription data but would be granted access to clinician notes about musculoskeletal issues. This kind of personalized ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bidu, MBA December 2017
... I would be in the business of making other people’s health better. But that changed when I met Dr Eric Topol,[ 1 ] a cardiologist, geneticist, and digital health researcher at the Scripps Translational Science ... advisor to Google, calls it exponential acceleration and notes that the law of accelerating returns affects every ...
News January/February 2017
A recent study by UBC medical researchers examined the health care costs associated with lumpectomy patients ... double recommended targets, the additional cost to BC’s health care system alone is $2 million per year. Study author ... targets, and report cards provided to surgeons. Dr Baliski notes that, in Canada, 23% of women require additional ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Chan, MD, MHsc March 2017
... Clinical Research Ethics Board and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. All deceased-donor liver ... operative reports, radiology studies, outpatient clinic notes, and all available follow-up information obtained at ... of all cases. Despite limitations inherent when comparing health care systems and patient populations, a comparison of ...
News / BY: Laura McLean March 2017
The American Medical Association notes that there are over 48 000 genetic tests currently available for health risk screening or diagnostic purposes, and the number ... of genetic testing for individuals seeking life and health insurance. The Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... difficult conversations about end-of-life care. Exploding health care costs, expanding need for seniors’ health care, opioid overuse, and controversies about futile ... as physicians or our patient’s needs?[ 2 ] Nuland also notes how sometimes physicians will provide false hope in an ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Colin Jackson, MD, FRCSC May 2017
... violence is one of the risks that come with working in health care. Physicians who work in environments where ... A  Canadian Medical Association Journal  article[ 1 ] notes that almost all primary care physicians experience ... increase with the growing number of patients with mental health and substance abuse problems. The physical and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elena Terekhova, MD, PhD June 2017
... used telehealth services are those associated with mental health, cardiology, diabetes, genetics, oncology, neurology, ... that telemedicine can be a safe option for providing health care and can lead to many favorable outcomes.[ 3-7 ] ... for bronchitis.[ 10 ] As well, the BC Ministry of Health notes that the fragmented, unmanaged approach to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alexa R.Y. Dang, BSc July/August 2017
... that including additional information would make these notes more useful to FPs following patients after RT and ... Columbia, the Research Review Committee at Northern Health, and the joint Research Ethics Board of BCCA and the ... Shared Care Committee of Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health. Results Of the 180 questionnaires mailed to family ...