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The origins of Canada’s medicare system were celebrated in Swift Current thanks to the efforts of a local history buff who noted July 1 was the 70th anniversary of Health Care Region No. 1 in Saskatchewan. “[The history is] very much overlooked,”…

Ontario is investing up to $358 million to give patients faster access to high-quality care at Etobicoke General Hospital. The project includes four new storeys and 250,000 square feet of new space for the services needed most by the community,…

At some offices, signs are posted indicating patient visits can only last 15 minutes — so patients are asked to keep their questions and concerns down to one or two issues. The signs are not meant to deter patients from…

Of the explosion of 165,000 health apps now available, 36 account for half of downloads, said Emily Seto, an engineer and health technology specialist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University of Toronto. Seto’s Bluetooth-enabled app interface…

Dr. Vahid Sahiholnasab is among a group of entrepreneurs in B.C. who are developing innovative gadgets that can be worn, a rapidly advancing market known as “wearable technology.” Sahiholnasab has designed a pair of high-tech glasses to prevent children from…

The opaque era when hospitals rarely talked about mistakes made on their watch may be on its way out. Dr. Michael Apkon, president and CEO of SickKids, wants people to know that serious errors happen in every hospital. Instead of…

Hamilton patients will benefit from: $10.3 million increase in operating funding for Hamilton Health Sciences $3.6 million increase in operating funding for St. Joseph’s Health Care Hamilton Approximately $10 million to Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, to expand capacity for the…

Canada urgently needs a national strategy to ensure seniors are prescribed appropriate medications because the cost of giving them the wrong drugs has reached nearly $2 billion a year, a new study says. Prof. Steve Morgan of the University of…

Ontario is moving forward to improve access to hospital services for patients in the Fergus community with the release of a request for proposals to prequalified companies to build and finance the new Groves Memorial Community Hospital project. Through this…

Unnecessary hospitalizations due to chronic disease are reaching the tipping point of seriously harming this country’s healthcare system and do not meet the needs of patients and their families, according to a report by the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement…