by medicaltechont | Jun 19, 2021 | Canada, Healthcare, Ontario
By the end of the summer, Ontario hopes to have fully vaccinated the majority of its population. Residents who want to have their shot sooner should reschedule their second appointments when they become eligible. Individuals can choose to wait for their already scheduled appointments. Vaccines will aid in the prevention of COVID-19. They help the body fight the illness. The pandemic will not be over until the majority of Ontarian’s, and Canadians across Canada, have received vaccinations. By being vaccinated, you can protect yourself, your family, and your community.
Various online platforms are available for booking appointments. Some are located below, with more to add in upcoming days.
How to book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/book-vaccine/
How to book an appointment in Durham
https://www.durham.ca/en/health-and-wellness/covid-19-vaccines.aspx
How to book an appointment in Toronto
https://www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/covid-19-protect-yourself-others/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-how-to-get-vaccinated/
How to book an appointment in Niagara
https://www.niagararegion.ca/health/covid-19/vaccination/appointment-booking.aspx
How to book an appointment in Halton
https://www.halton.ca/For-Residents/New-Coronavirus/COVID-19-Vaccines/COVID-19-Vaccination-Clinics
How to book an appointment in York Region
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How to book an appointment in Peel
https://www.halton.ca/For-Residents/New-Coronavirus/COVID-19-Vaccines/COVID-19-Vaccination-Clinics
by medicaltechont | Feb 2, 2020 | Canada, Emergency, Healthcare, Ontario
In December news about a new SARs like virus started to hit the news. A dangerous and potentially infectious virus appeared in Wuhan, China. Named 2019-nCoV, the virus comes from the coronavirus family. It was first identified back in the 1960s. With the rise of infections it’s important to obtain creditable information from trusted sources. The WHO declared a Global Health Emergency and many organizations have followed suit. The Ontario government has setup a site with information on the new 2019 virus. For more information please click on the link below and learn how to protect yourself in upcoming months.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/2019-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov
by medicaltechont | Oct 13, 2018 | Apple, Apple Watch, FitBit, Healthcare, Smart Watch, Technology
The watch has evolved from the simple iconic Dick Tracy two-way radio. With the release of the latest Apple Watch Series 4 we now have a watch, or smart-device, with a built-in electrocardiogram. Along with it’s FitBit type features the technology can only evolve.
“We estimate that there are almost 700,000 undiagnosed cases of AFib in the United States, and most of them would benefit from treatment such as anticoagulation to prevent stroke,” says Dr. Mintu Turakhia, executive director of Stanford University’s Center for Digital Health.
The possibilities for better healthcare monitor can only grow and it will be interesting to see where the technology takes us.
Read more about the growth of the Smart Watch (Apple Watch Series 4).
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-watch-series-4-ekg-heart-rate-monitor-next-level/
by medicaltechont | Jun 16, 2018 | Healthcare
Two-thirds of Canadian doctors say their primary means of communication with other physicians is by fax.
Medical clinics in this country, on average, send and receive a mind-boggling 24,000 pages of faxed information annually. Only about one-third of family physicians and specialists e-mail their colleagues for clinical purposes, never mind patients.
These data, from a 2017 survey of clinicians by Telus Health, remind us that, in the digital age, health care continues to cling desperately to the facsimile machine, a clunky technology that most industries have long ago relegated to the scrap heap.
Health care is slow to change. Medicine has an intrinsic (verging on pathological) aversion to risk. If a bank introduces a new technology and it flops, that’s an inconvenience for customers; if a hospital does so, it can be deadly. The stakes are higher.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-why-are-fax-machines-still-the-norm-in-21st-century-health-care/
by medicaltechont | Jun 9, 2018 | Canada, Cloud, e-Health, eHealth, Election, Electronic Medical Records, Healthcare, Hospitals, Medical Records, Technology
I have been a family physician practising in this province for 30 years. It is a great joy looking after my patients. However, looking after them in the health care quagmire of disconnected information and bureaucratic silos is becoming a nightmare. It is alarming seeing my young colleagues bewildered so early in their careers, and new graduates of family medicine are afraid to set up practice.
The province is carved up into 14 Local Health Integration Networks and 76 sub-LHINs each seemingly reinventing the wheel while consultants analyze the same things over and over again. There is an obsession with accountability frameworks designed by this ever growing bureaucracy that has little idea about what we actually do and what tools we need to do our job.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on a huge array of electronic repositories and information systems that don’t integrate at the most basic level with each other years after they were built. Providers spend countless hours trying to locate who does what where and what hoops to jump through to get appointments. We fax long paper forms with lab and other reports that are somehow not available from these expensive repositories. We typically access each other by phone in the absence of electronic messaging capabilities.
Read more at https://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/8651966-survival-at-the-front-lines-of-the-health-care-quagmire/
by medicaltechont | Jun 4, 2018 | Canada, Doctors, e-Health, eHealth, Electronic Medical Records, Healthcare, Ontario, Privacy, Toronto
A total of 5,063 public elementary students were suspended in Toronto this school year after getting caught in what one doctor called, a “1970s-style, cumbersome process” over immunization records.
The number of students suspended amounted to 7 per cent of the 73,262 elementary students in 586 Toronto public elementary schools assessed by Toronto Public Health from July to mid-December 2017. That’s a jump from 5.6 per cent last year.
“All of the students who were suspended either didn’t meet the immunization requirements as they were not up-to-date, their records were not filed on time, or they did not have a valid exemption,” said Dr. Vinita Dubey, associate medical officer at Toronto Public Health.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/02/14/over-5000-elementary-school-kids-suspended-in-toronto-for-out-of-date-immunization-records.html
