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One Ontario hospital is trying to lessen its “hallway medicine” problem by forming a new team of health-care workers in its emergency room with the aim of reducing admission rates among seniors. The “ED One Team” at Sunnybrook Health Sciences…
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are one of the only things that can save a patient who is suffering cardiac arrest. But in an emergency situation, finding one can be a matter of luck. “Knowing how many AEDs are out there…
Please join us for a day of research presentations on the applications of analytics to healthcare. We have a lineup of internationally renowned experts in different scientific disciplines who will present data driven work in the context of the healthcare…
Thursday, March 5, 2020 Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning Robert B. Salter Auditorium, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Learn about rich population-level data available to researchers in Ontario and how Ontario scientists are…
Canadians are making unnecessary visits to their doctors’ offices and hospitals as the public health-care system lags behind other countries and the private sector in “virtual” care, according to a task force led by the Canadian Medical Association. Canada was…
Speaker: Adam Diamand, York University Time: Thursday, February 13, 2020, 12:10pm-1:00pm Venue: Bahen Centre, Room 1190, 40 St. George Street Abstract: We investigate the scheduling practices of multistage outpatient health programs that offer care plans customized to the needs of their patients.…
The period between exposure to the new coronavirus that originated in China and symptoms is 5.2 days on average, but varies greatly among patients, according to one of the largest studies yet published on the deadly epidemic. While admitting that…
The Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy surveys fill important information gaps by polling patients and providers in 11 developed countries. The 2019 edition focuses on primary care physicians and provides an important perspective on how well primary care — a…
Some of the main downtown areas that are hot spots include Queen and Bay, Spadina and Dundas as well as Gerrard and Jarvis. At present, no one regulates where the defibrillators are installed in Ontario. Timothy Chan created a mathematical…
A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported. The study, published in…
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