The Ontario government is investing $2 million this year through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund to help Timmins and District Hospital complete critical upgrades and repairs that will create a safer, more comfortable space for people and their families connecting to care and services at the hospital. “Our government isRead More →
Based on the amount of coronavirus found in the province’s wastewater, Ontario is witnessing 100,000 to 120,000 new cases of COVID-19 every day. There were 1,074 individuals with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals as of Wednesday morning, with the load on the healthcare system showing no signs of alleviating anytime soon.Read More →
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 preventionRead More →
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 obtainRead More →
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 schoolsRead More →
A new partnership will benefit clients of the new Good Doctors Medical walk-in clinic that opened in Espanola last week. OntarioMD and the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) are partnering to streamline the delivery of digital health services. Read more at https://www.myespanolanow.com/16851/ontariomd-and-ontario-telemedicine-network-digital-delivery/Read More →
Electronic patient records in doctors’ offices across the country are being used by brand name drug companies looking to muscle market share away from generic competitors, a Star investigation has found. Concerned physicians say a clinical tool they use to write prescriptions and care for patients is being co-opted, andRead More →
A record number of medical-school graduates this year missed out on residency programs, their final training stage, due to an “alarming trend” that puts at risk the hundreds of thousands of dollars provincial governments have invested in the next generation of Canadian doctors. This spring, more than 2,700 medical studentsRead More →
Three Ontario hospitals recently announced they are joining hands to share an implementation of Meditech’s latest electronic medical records system, called the Meditech Web EHR. Markham Stouffville Hospital, in Markham, Ont., will host the system, and a single, shareable electronic health record will be created for patients at Markham Stouffville,Read More →
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a 24-month damage award to a long-service nurse in a doctor’s office who believed that she had been fired during a hostile meeting with her employer. The doctor for whom she worked wanted her to look into electronic medical records (EMR). She wasRead More →