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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…

For graduate students, the Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Engineering includes a 12-month internship with a hospital or health-care technology company. MEng students can also arrange internships through the University of Toronto Centre for Healthcare Engineering. Additional funding for…

Ontario is investing $6 million in local mental health services to help an estimated additional 4,000 children and youth, and their families each year. Approximately one in five children and youth in Ontario experience a mental health challenge. About 70…

For all the talk about the importance of mental health, it can be hard to access help in Canada. Anyone who has ever sought provincially-funded therapy knows that long wait times are simply part of the package. But several Canadian…

Health Minister Jane Philpott has wrapped up two days of meetings with provincial and territorial counterparts in Vancouver, with the ministers deciding to tackle drug prices, community care and innovation as top priorities. “Today we discussed a plan to work…

“My sense actually, in talking to my counterparts, is that there’s a great appetite in not distracting ourselves too much about the financial conversations,” Canada’s Health Minister, Jane Philpott, told CBC News, “but at this stage, obviously, developing a good working relationship…

Today, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) and Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) launched the panel for an upcoming best practice guideline aimed at taking advantage of technology to optimize clinical leadership and health system deliverables. The guideline’s expert panel is…

As the country’s health ministers prepare to meet in Vancouver, Ontario is already saying decisions on changing the health care funding formula should be left for another day. British Columbia Health Minister Terry Lake says B.C. and the Atlantic provinces…