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In 2014, 11.2 per cent of Canadians over the age of 12 reported not being able to receive the health care they needed. A third (33.4 per cent) said this was due to wait times being too long, 13.7 per…
Congratulations to Birsen Donmez (MIE; CHE Affiliate), for becoming holder of Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation (Tier 2, new) Driving a car is a complex process, requiring the ability to multi-task and pay attention to many simultaneous…
Dionne Aleman and her University of Toronto colleagues study how Canadian hospitals schedule surgeries and the impact on patients. “An important thing to recognize is that exceptionally rare events like a surgery being cancelled mid-surgery — it’s not necessarily practical…
Windsor Regional Hospital is embarking on a multi-year initiative to standardize and optimize clinical and nonclinical care processes across both Ouellette and Met Campuses. The focus will be on identifying and implementing world wide best practices into the operations at…
The World Health Organization’s emergency response capability is “lacking” and will put thousands of lives at risk if it is not reformed now, according to a high-level U.N. report on health crises. “This may be the last opportunity to ensure the WHO is empowered”…
In this talk Prof. Andrea Lodi reviews a couple of applications on Big Data that he personally likes and tries to explain his point of view as a Mathematical Optimizer — especially concerned with discrete (integer) decisions — on the subject. He…
Demand for child and youth mental health care has been steadily rising throughout Ontario’s health care system, with the biggest growth being felt in Ontario’s emergency departments. These are among the findings of a new study from the Institute for…
The patients who pay are receiving an alternate level of care, a bureaucratic description for people in hospital who are no longer acutely ill. The category captures seniors waiting for long-term beds in what are called transitional-care units. More than 30 hospitals in Nova Scotia…
A report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows an increasing proportion of the country’s doctors are ditching paper files in favour of computer-based records. In a survey of almost 2,300 Canadian family physicians, 73 per…
The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is suspected of causing brain damage to babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Zika has not yet been reported…
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