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A holistic approach to healthy data security practices
Data breaches are among the biggest challenges facing today’s health care industry. In the past two years in Ontario alone, according to the [...]
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Information available across multiple platforms for health care professionals
Health care practitioners and administrators face multiple challenges when it comes to staying current with therapeutic information. Not only does the information have [...]
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Bill 168: The Year in Review
It has now been over a year since Bill 168, the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace) [...]
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Ask the ethicist: Patient-centred bioethics begins with patient education
Due to the illness of a family member, I have spent the vast majority of the past two years visiting many different hospitals. [...]
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A shot in the arm
Fewer than 50 per cent of health-care workers in acute and complex continuing care got the flu shot in 2010. Efforts to boost [...]
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Shared accountability and stakeholder engagement pave path to success
When I arrived at York Central Hospital a little over a year ago, the hospital was in the midst of a major transformation. [...]
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Technology improves patient care and efficiency
For the last several Februarys, Hospital News has focused on facilities management and design, health technology and greening health care. And every year [...]
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Cardiology
A North American first at the Montreal Heart Institute
An innovative procedure called an aortic valve annuloplasty was successfully carried out at the Montreal Heart Institute saving the life of a young [...]
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Patient Care
Care close to home for the tiniest and most fragile residents
Yvette Gabovic-Dahlke cuddles her tiny son as she gently rocks back and forth in the hospital rocking chair. Her eyes rarely leave the [...]
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Oncology
Lawson researchers engineer a switch to tame aggressive cancers
When cancers become aggressive and spread they are the most deadly. Unfortunately, little is known about how to stop this development. A new [...]
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Education and Professional Development
Scarborough Hospital surgeon demonstrates unique procedure to Chilean doctors
It is a very rare procedure – only three surgeons in Canada are doing it – and Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Jim Rathbun of [...]
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Education and Professional Development
Reducing client-handling musculoskeletal disorders
Providence Healthcare is a leading Toronto health care facility that offers rehabilitation, palliative care, outpatient clinics and services, caregiver support and long-term care. [...]
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Education and Professional Development
Healthy hospital committee puts heart into health care
It takes a lot of courage to acknowledge your weakness. Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) is a hospital determined to create a high [...]
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Education and Professional Development
A hidden truth: Hostility in healthcare
A nurse rolls her eyes when you ask her for help. A new nurse is given the most difficult patient on the floor [...]
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Education and Professional Development
Keeping fit in a high-stress environment
The first doctor I ever knew had his jet-black hair slicked back in a way that made him look like Dracula. For many [...]
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Patient Care
Fraser Health enhances info for surgical patients including Soonest Surgery Tool
The Soonest Surgery Tool predicts the five surgeons in Fraser Health most likely able to perform a specific surgical procedure sooner than others. [...]
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Facilities Management and Design
Bluewater Health opens new cancer care assessment and treatment centre
Just imagine…it might be cancer. The prospect of a cancer diagnosis is perhaps one of the most anxious times anyone could face. Cancer [...]
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Education and Professional Development
Stop talking, start doing: The pursuit of wellness while you work
Happiness is a skill. One day. Twenty-four hours. 1,440 minutes. 86,400 seconds. How much time do you dedicate to your own happiness in [...]
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Education and Professional Development
Providence Health Care named a Best Employer for New Canadians fourth year in a row
This past March, Providence Health Care (PHC) in Vancouver was selected by Mediacorp Canada Inc. as one of the 35 Best Employers for [...]
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Education and Professional Development
Celebrating the early success of an onsite fitness program
Only six months out of the gate, London Health Sciences Centre’s (LHSC) pilot fitness program is delivering big rewards to participants. The pilot [...]
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