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Editorials / BY: Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC November 2018
... or obese.[ 1 ] DC estimates that the cost to the BC health care system of diabetes-related hospitalizations, ... doing about the present danger and anticipated tsunami of health care costs? The Diabetes Charter for Canada[ 7 ] has ... conflicting recommendations for diabetes management and notes that Therapeutics Initiative messages disseminated to ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2018
... and banks are rarely used for banking. And yet, there’s health care. While we celebrate innovative successes such as ... if they use the same platform. Handwritten emergency room notes arrive by mail. Requests for health care services must be faxed on specified forms. When ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... I’m at work so late. If I leave before dictating all my notes and returning all my calls, then I feel guilty about ... right. That practising medicine should be good for our health too. That we need to channel our frustrations. That ... and advanced access and 24-7 imaging and digital health, all begging to be scaled. We have a new governance ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Andrew Hurlburt, MD April 2016
... become pregnant should discuss all travel plans with their health care provider to assess their risk for Zika exposure ... and unclear duration of persistence in tissues, the Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that women returning from ... that her pregnancy might be affected. The patient notes that she and her husband did get a few mosquito bites ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2016
... glance at the referral form and then send it back to the health region for booking. Another similar frustration is to ... short-term/long-term disability updates, medical EI, notes for physiotherapy/massage/work ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD December 2014
... rates of EMR adoption in Canada,[ 1 ] BC joins progressive health care systems around the world that are advancing the ... and quality of patient care, and ultimately patient health. And for good reason. Meaningful use (MU), which can ... like automated billings, scheduling, and text notes, is just a starting point.  Physicians can increase ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) May 2014
... as a standard of care—regardless of age, life stage, or health status, because you never know when a crisis will ... care plans, collaborating with government to ensure all health care providers have access to appropriate patient ... we recommend that doctors include in their consultation notes details about transition in health status as a standard ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2013
... renal cysts, colonic stool content, and fatty livers? The health authority in which I toil is adopting a new program ... have this access they will be more engaged in their health management and more likely to make good health and ... access and won’t be able to read the physician’s notes, but what if this changes? Before long I might find ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2013
... school and study for many long hours so that I could write notes and fill out forms, but this is what seems to be ... to help our patients and acquiesce.  Many extended health plans require a physician’s referral for orthotics, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, November 2012
... care—the seamless support of patients across multiple health care providers—is a model aspired to throughout ... bringing together representatives from every aspect of the health care experience, both at a provincial and local level. ... undertakings. SOS Division executive lead Terrie Crawford notes that while system­ic change takes time, the region ...