It’s eight am at Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and 100 first-year resident physicians are taking their seats at staff orientation. While many of the young physicians may be anticipating hearing from senior health-care leaders at KGH, the first person to ...

Social media has connected the world and provided us with instant access to information in a way that no other innovation has. Most enlightened employers, recognizing the benefits of social media (and that it is not going away), now endorse ...

This summer, the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM) released its newest clinical practice guideline, Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. The guideline is available in various formats, making the information even more accessible for midwives, pregnant women and other health care providers. The ...

From pregnancy planning for young couples to culturally sensitive research for Aboriginal people, the Women and HIV Research Program at Women’s College Research Institute is engaging underserved people and targeting their unique needs. New HIV Pregnancy Planning Guidelines “Many Canadians living with ...

To Your Health and Prosperity - An Action Plan to Help Attract More Clinical Trials to Canada is the result of the first ever National Clinical Trials Summit that took place nearly year ago, on September 15, 2011. The Summit ...

Globally, the rate of suicide is increasing at a dramatic rate impacting all age groups, socio-economic levels, cultures and religions. Suicide is now an internationally recognized patient safety issue in health care. In Canada, more attention is gradually being focused ...

Recent dramatic changes in the treatment of hepatitis C has prompted the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL) to issue updated clinical guidelines for managing hepatitis C, a serious liver disease. Thanks to new direct-acting antivirals that ...

Health information management professionals (HIM™) provide services in all aspects of records management – including data collection and data quality management, integrity, standards, disclosure, coding, disposition, and privacy of health information. They perform detailed analysis of the information in the ...

We often compare our health system to the United States and United Kingdom. But why compare to countries with systems that are not better than ours rather than looking at those that work well?  We are familiar with the situation ...

The Winchester District Memorial Hospital (WDMH) is committed to supporting seniors – starting right at the top. Last year, the hospital hired Karl Samuelson, its first Vice President, Seniors’ Services, to lead a renewed commitment to this specialized care. And for ...