by medicaltechont | Mar 5, 2016 | Election, United States
U.S. Republican presidential front-runner candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled proposals for reforming U.S. health care that included repealing Obamacare, allowing prescription drugs to be imported, and turning the Medicaid program for the poor into block grants to states.
“On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare,” reads the statement from the Trump campaign.
“However, it is not enough to simply repeal this terrible legislation. We will work with Congress to make sure we have a series of reforms ready for implementation that follow free market principles and that will restore economic freedom and certainty to everyone in this country.”
Read more at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-healthcare-proposal-1.3473694
by medicaltechont | Feb 8, 2016 | Canada, Technology
A new report by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences released yesterday provides an eye-opening look at how our healthcare dollars are being spent in this province.
This is an in-depth look at our healthcare spending at the level of each individual in the province. Researchers tracked every hospital admission, physician visit, home care visit, lab test, and drug prescription for 14.9 million Ontarians between 2009 and 2011.
They accounted for $30 billion, or 75 cents out of every healthcare dollar spent in this province, and found that 43 per cent goes to hospital care, 27 per cent to doctors, 15 per cent to drugs and lab tests, and 15 per cent to long-term care.
As it turns out, “high-cost users” consume a disproportionate amount of these resources. Ten percent of the population accounted for 77 per cent of spending and 1 per cent accounted for 33 per cent of spending. Each person in that top 1 per cent consumed almost $45,000 a year, compared to a maximum of only $333 a year for each person in the lower 50 per cent cost bracket of the population.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2449651/a-look-at-where-ontario-healthcare-dollars-are-going/
by medicaltechont | Jan 24, 2016 | Canada, Education, Technology, United States
HeadCheck Health wants to minimize the damage of concussions in sports.
The app, created by UBC PhD student Harrison Brown and UBC MBA graduate Kerry Costello, aims to help coachers properly assess concussions in real-time.
Read more at http://www.techvibes.com/blog/seeking-safety-in-sports-headcheck-app-diagnoses-concussions-immediately-2016-01-22
by medicaltechont | Dec 20, 2015 | Technology
Syrian refugee families who have just arrived in Canada need to be linked to the primary health-care system, according to a new article that takes doctors through what they should consider.
Tuesday’s online issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journalincludes an article entitled “Caring for a newly arrived Syrian refugee family.”
Read more at http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/syrian-refugee-health-1.3355934
by medicaltechont | Dec 19, 2015 | private clinics, Technology
National Medicare Week has just passed, buoyed with optimism as a fresh-faced government takes the reins in Ottawa — elected partly on a promise of renewed federal leadership on health care. Yet these “sunny ways” are overcast by recent developments at the provincial level that entrench and legitimize two-tier care.
Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/colleen-m-flood/canadian-health-care_b_8813156.html
