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- Cyberattacks on Canadian health information systems | CMAJwww.cmaj.ca Cyberattacks on Canadian health information systems
KEY POINTS Canadian health systems have digitized considerably. In 2019, 86% of surveyed Canadian family physicians reported using electronic medical records (EMRs).[1][1] Digital tools for virtual care and remote patient monitoring, wearables, care coordination platforms, and Internet-of-things (
- 'He does not deserve this': University of Ottawa criticized after medical resident suspended for pro-Palestine postsca.news.yahoo.com 'He does not deserve this': University of Ottawa criticized after medical resident suspended for pro-Palestine posts
A petition aiming to reinstate Dr. Yipeng Ge and launch an inquiry has received more than 28,000 signatures.
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- Pay Transparency Act: What employers need to know | Doctors of BCwww.doctorsofbc.ca Pay Transparency Act: What employers need to know
The Government of British Columbia recently announced the Pay Transparency Act, effective as of November 1, 2023, which applies to all BC employers. The Act requires that salary or wage information must be included in all publicly advertised job postings and must include a specified minimum or maxim...
- How a new ‘super screener’ is helping prevent cancer in patients without a family doctor - The Globe and Mailwww.theglobeandmail.com How a new ‘super screener’ is helping detect cancer in patients without a family doctor
Recent study finds that 73.1 per cent of Ontario patients with doctors were up to date on cancer screening, compared with 49.5 per cent of people who relied on walk-in clinics
- Integrated primary, community care facility coming to Vanderhoof | BC Gov Newsnews.gov.bc.ca Integrated primary, community care facility coming to Vanderhoof | BC Gov News
People in Vanderhoof will benefit from improved primary and community health care with the approval of a new integrated primary-care and community health services facility to open in 2025.
- New CMAJ article type aims to help physicians support their patients | CMAJwww.cmaj.ca New CMAJ article type aims to help physicians support their patients
[See related articles at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.230544][1], [www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.230665][2] and [www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.231476][3] In this issue of CMAJ , we launch a new Practice series — Five Ways to Support — which will give clinician readers
- This doctor treated HIV/AIDS patients when no one else would. His advocacy continued as he prepared to die | CBC News
> A Winnipeg doctor hopes his legacy of providing health care to LGBTQ patients — one of only a few local physicians doing so at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis — extends beyond his life. > > Dr. Dick Smith, who had pancreatic cancer, died with medical assistance on Tuesday. He was 80. > > "My biggest thing that I want people to really get a grip on is that no minority of any kind, whether it be religious or sexual or racial, is ever safe," Smith told CBC News in an interview 24 hours before he died.
- Birth control pills may alter how women perceive fear. Here’s howglobalnews.ca Birth control pills may alter how women perceive fear. Here’s how | Globalnews.ca
Birth control pills may affect the brain's fear-regulating regions in women, potentially increasing the risk of anxiety and stress-related disorders, according to a study.
Article itself: Frontiers | Morphologic alterations of the fear circuitry: the role of sex hormones and oral contraceptives
Front. Endocrinol., 07 November 2023 https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1228504
> Background: Endogenous sex hormones and oral contraceptives (OCs) have been shown to influence key regions implicated in fear processing. While OC use has been found to impact brain morphology, methodological challenges remain to be addressed, such as avoiding selection bias between OC users and non-users, as well as examining potential lasting effects of OC intake. > > Objective: We investigated the current and lasting effects of OC use, as well as the interplay between the current hormonal milieu and history of hormonal contraception use on structural correlates of the fear circuitry. We also examined the role of endogenous and exogenous sex hormones within this network.
- Health care utilization and outcomes of patients seen by virtual urgent care versus in-person emergency department carewww.cmaj.ca Health care utilization and outcomes of patients seen by virtual urgent care versus in-person emergency department care
Background: Virtual urgent care (VUC) is intended to support diversion of patients with low-acuity complaints and reduce the need for in-person emergency department visits. We aimed to describe subsequent health care utilization and outcomes of patients who used VUC compared with similar patients wh...
They looked at the "virtual urgent care" pilot program in Ontario. Relevant bits:
> Virtual urgent care (VUC) is intended to support diversion of patients with low-acuity complaints and reduce the need for in-person emergency department visits. We aimed to describe subsequent health care utilization and outcomes of patients who used VUC compared with similar patients who had an in-person emergency department visit.
> Of the 19 595 patient VUC visits linked to administrative data, we matched 2129 patients promptly referred to the emergency department by a VUC provider to patients presenting to the emergency department in person
> Interpretation: The impact of the provincial VUC pilot program on subsequent health care utilization was limited. There is a need to better understand the inherent limitations of virtual care and ensure future virtual providers have timely access to in-person outpatient resources, to prevent subsequent emergency department visits.
- Premiers receptive of Houston's call to stop interprovincial recruitment of health-care workers
> 'Trying to poach workers from another jurisdiction is not really supporting each other'
- Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospitals
> A 3rd set of data has been published on the dark web, site says, as OPP continue investigation
- ‘It’s not safe’: 80,000 health-care workers in Quebec on strike over working conditions | Globalnews.caglobalnews.ca ‘It’s not safe’: 80,000 health-care workers in Quebec on strike over working conditions | Globalnews.ca
Nurses and other health-care workers' two-day walkout will continue Thursday. The FIQ also announced strike days for Nov. 23 and Nov.24.
- Alberta government report on safe consumption ‘pseudoscience,’ says medical journalwww.winnipegfreepress.com Report on safe consumption 'pseudo-science'
EDMONTON – An Alberta government report that influenced safe drug consumption policy is so badly flawed it’s harming people and should be withdrawn, says a new study in a prominent medical...
- McMaster University conducts review after professor's social media remark | CP24.comwww.cp24.com McMaster University conducts review in light of professor's social media remark
McMaster University says that it is conducting a “review” after a professor made a social media comment about a pro-Palestinian protest that it says “does not align” with its “values” or “responsibilities.”
- Province giving family doctors $20M boost ahead of new payment model | CTV Newssaskatoon.ctvnews.ca Province giving family doctors $20M boost ahead of new payment model
The province is giving one-time funding of $20 million to family physicians as a stopgap measure before Saskatchewan moves to a new payment model based on blended capitation.
- myHealthBC - Release 2.0.0-226 | See immunization recommendations and diagnostic imaginggithub.com Release Release 2.0.0-226 · bcgov/myhealthBC-android
You can now view Immunization recommendations for you and your dependents. Phase 1 diagnostic imaging reports from public health facilities have been added. We also added some enhancements to enabl...
> - You can now view Immunization recommendations for you and your dependents. > - Phase 1 diagnostic imaging reports from public health facilities have been added. > - We also added some enhancements to enable quick access to features and easier profile updates.
Link to app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.bc.gov.myhealth
- Disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer disease: implications for people in Canada | CMAJwww.cmaj.ca Disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer disease: implications for people in Canada
KEY POINTS At least 250 000 people in Canada live with mild dementia, and 1.3 million live with mild cognitive impairment.[1][1]–[3][2] Alzheimer disease is implicated in 60%–70% of cases of dementia and 30%–77% of cases of mild cognitive impairment.[4][3],[5][4] There are no recommended
- One in four Ontarians may be without a family doctor by 2026, analysis says - The Globe and Mailwww.theglobeandmail.com One in four Ontarians may be without a family doctor by 2026, analysis says
New figures released Wednesday by the Ontario College of Family Physicians show worsening of primary care crisis
> More than 4.4 million Ontarians could be without a primary-care physician by 2026, according to a new analysis that predicts a substantial increase in orphaned patients as older doctors retire and younger ones turn away from traditional family practice. > > New figures released Wednesday by the Ontario College of Family Physicians show an estimated 26 per cent of residents in Canada’s most populous province may not have a regular primary-care provider three years from now, up from an estimated 18 per cent at the end of this year. > > “We know that we’ve been facing a crisis in family medicine, and I think what we’re seeing with this new data is that the crisis is worsening,” said Mekalai Kumanan, president of the OCFP and a family doctor in Cambridge. “It really is incredibly worrisome to see our forecast showing one in four people in Ontario may be without a family doctor by 2026.”
- Canada’s crisis of primary care access: Is expanding residency training to 3 years a solution? | CMAJwww.cmaj.ca Canada’s crisis of primary care access: Is expanding residency training to 3 years a solution?
KEY POINTS In 2022, The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) published its final report of the Outcomes of Training Project, including the recommendation to extend family medicine residency training from 2 to 3 years.[1][1] Through an expanded training program, the CFPC’s goal is to
- New long-term care home coming to Nanaimo | BC Gov Newsnews.gov.bc.ca New long-term care home coming to Nanaimo | BC Gov News
More people in Nanaimo and surrounding communities will have access to long-term care as Island Health prepares to build a new care home with more than 300 beds.
- There's growing opposition to making family doctor training longer
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/7667031
> The College of Family Physicians of Canada is being asked to "pause, hold and maybe stop" its plans to increase the time it takes to train a family doctor from two years to three — as some medical students, family doctors and provincial health ministers express their opposition. > > "Our class, the class of 2027, is going to be the first that's impacted by this change in residency length," said Yash Verma, a first-year medical student at the University of Toronto. > > "It feels like that's something that's out of our control and that we have no power to change at all." > > Verma said he first heard about the plan from CBC News in September. Alarmed, he asked his classmates for their thoughts. > > He says he heard a recurring theme: "If this third year were to happen, they would not become family doctors."
