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Statement on “E-Health, Hospital Operations, Physician Billings, Psychiatric Hospitals and Supportive Housing” in response to the report from the Auditor General. Full article at: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the lengthy queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed specialist…

Health Minister Eric Hoskins says he’ll act on a recommendation to give patients access to their electronic medical records as the province updates the mandate of eHealth Ontario. The Liberal government’s privatization czar, Ed Clark, recommended eHealth’s role be refocused…

Academic scientists devote their lives to research, often toiling away on problems that few people outside their discipline fully understand. Perhaps some are driven by pure curiosity or competition, while others have a personal interest in the topic at hand.…

Doctor home visits are not well known in Canada. For many, the idea harkens back to another era. But in Britain, the house call has moved into this century. Now you can hail a doctor as easily as an Uber,…

Dr. Catherine Zahn, president of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, says mental illness afflicts some 6.7 million Canadians – roughly 20 per cent of the population – and costs the economy an estimated $51 billion each year. That’s…

Pretty well everyone has heard a horror story about a serious hospital mishap: a medication mix-up; a sponge or retractor left in a patient after surgery; the wrong kidney removed. So it would be no surprise if some patients facing…

The problem is that home care is not covered in the first two to three months after a patient moves to a new province. The federal, provincial and territorial health ministers made home care a priority at their meeting in…

Fourteen new faculty members working at the leading edge of engineering education and research are joining U of T Engineering, slated to begin on or before July 1, 2017. Five of these professors hold appointments in more than one department.…

A lot of seniors like to say that their fall “just happened.” That is not the case, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. Falls are the main cause of hospital admissions for older adults. About 20 per cent…