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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2010
... and Mail we are amazed by the brilliance of the BCMJ.org Health Notes. DRR  Aw, shucks. G&M  I see that the Health Notes section of the web site provides physicians with ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, March 2010
... The new templates allow quick prescriptions, patient sick notes, patient information leaflets, and follow-up advice. ... program feature requests and training, and with the local health authority for interfacing of lab and other data. ... of my fingers, I would have had a COP or an integrated health network 3 years ago. But it’s getting all the people ...
Editorials / BY: Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC May 2010
... at that time. In October 1985, the BC Ministry of Health announced the formation of the British Columbia ... rates. Today BC Transplant is a comprehensive, nonprofit health care agency with responsibility for the overall ... transplantation: Current status in British Columbia,” notes that orthotopic liver transplantation has become an ...
Letters November 2010
... “Marijuana is not approved for use as a drug in Canada. Health Canada states that “no marijuana product has been issued a notice of compliance” and notes that indications, safety and risks have not been ... certain symptoms from which they suffer can apply to Health Canada for authorization to possess and use marijuana ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2010
... of Vancouver Island, comments: “The day Vancouver Island Health Authority went live with the new lab interfacing ... and accurate information.” Dr Satish Desai of Parskville notes the benefits for his patients: “I have been using an ... services or through a system developed by one of the health authorities. Some of these interfaces have been ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, October 2009
... wish to use more sophisticated tools to capture consult notes in a highly structured template form that can then be ... of the practice (e.g., role of the local and provincial health authorities, nature of patient-provider ... working with a number of these specialists, the regional health authorities, and the PITO Steering Committee to ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, May 2009
... Dr Michael Ramsden, a rheumatologist in New Westminster, notes that “25 rheumatologists from across the pro­vince ... community just didn’t find the value in EMRs until the health au­thority was able to provide the diagnostic and ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... was admitted to the unit the night before under a mental health certificate, and I was asked specifically by the ... the police and was subsequently certified under the Mental Health Act of Bri­tish Columbia as to be suffering from a ... not interested in talking to me. Checking the nurse’s notes 4 days after his admission, I saw that he was eating ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
... of the ACRM propose the definition of mTBI, the World Health Organization notes no consensus with regard to the definition of mTBI. ...
Premise / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2006
... with them. For them he wrote wonderfully whimsical, loving notes, anecdotes, and memoirs. “With children, Osler had ... us teach medical students, residents, fellows, and other health professionals. Our students nourish us as much as we ...