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More than two-thirds of the world’s population lives in countries that do not produce reliable statistics on mortality by age, sex, and cause of death – one of the most important health indicators for understanding a country’s health priorities. Only…
In this issue, we look at business through a ‘health’ lens. Just as you cannot thrive if your health is compromised in some way, so it goes for organizations, communities, and society in general. We simply can’t have healthy communities…
IBM and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) are joining forces to help area hospital clinicians, researchers, academics and entrepreneurs accelerate the development and commercialization of new healthcare innovations. The two announced today plans to establish a new centre in downtown Hamilton…
Abstract: Given a list of cities along with the cost of travel between each pair of them, the traveling salesman problem is to find the cheapest way to visit them all and return to your starting point. Easy to state,…
Faced with long wait times, parents of children with depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues are even going into debt to pay for help they can’t afford to wait for. They are calling for provincial governments to better fund mental health…
We currently have a regular full time opening for a Decision Support Analyst in our Decision Support at our Bayview Campus. Summary of Duties Monthly and quarterly processing of data. The analyst will work with financial statistical and clinical data…
In 2016-2017, hospitals would receive: $175 million to provide patients with access to more services in new and redeveloped hospitals and for targeted priority services such as organ and tissue transplants $160 million to improve access and wait times for…
Speaker(s): Georgina Black, Partner, National Health & Life Sciences Lead KPMG in Canada Michael Guerriere, Chief Medical Officer, Vice President and General Manager, Provider Solutions, Telus Health Zayna Khayat, Senior Advisor of Health System Innovation at MaRS and Director of…
The rise of smartphones, wearable technology and cloud computing are creating opportunities for a data-based approach to the way individuals understand and monitor their health. Three U of T Engineering startups — MedTek Devices, Pillsy and MedChart — are addressing…
The shifts that doctors in their residency work in Canadian hospitals are some of the longest in the world and may be unsafe for patients, a Marketplace investigation reveals. CBC’s Marketplace investigated the effect that long shifts could have on…
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