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Here’s my bottom line: For Canada to thrive, we need to improve the health of our most vulnerable people. To do so successfully, we need Canada’s doctors to be actively engaged in population health. We entered medical school with a…

David Parker’s idea to offer virtual reality therapy began at Christmas. The IT consultant received a virtual reality headset as a gift. He first used them to take his wife’s grandmother to Venice, gliding through the canals on a gondola. Then…

A Toronto paramedic says recent “glitches” with a new software scheduler for city crews is putting “public safety at risk.” Mike Merriman, who has been an emergency care worker for the past 26 years, told AM 640’s Kelly Cutrara that…

Doctors are sounding the alarm about the chronic shortage of physicians and health-care services in northern Ontario. After a Health Quality Ontario report found that people in Ontario’s north have a shorter life expectancy and are more likely to die…

Health care is perhaps Canada’s defining obsession. As a nation, we crow about it and complain about it. We deify Tommy Douglas, rage about wait times, fret over private clinics and fight campaigns on minute points of privatization. But for…

On July 8, Mackenzie Health launched a new electronic medical record (EMR) that transforms the way care is delivered in this community. Implemented in collaboration with Epic, the software is the first full-suite Epic EMR to be installed in a…

The Great White North ranks third from the bottom in rankings of “Activity Inequality” by a group of researchers who looked at smartphone data to see how much walking people do in 111 countries and tracked their steps over an…

Virtual medical services that connect family physicians and patients with minor illnesses and injuries are popping up online in Canada, leading to questions about the universality and quality of care. More than half a dozen technology companies have launched apps in the…