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President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) November 2013
... 90%—especially among family physicians.  However, the BC story is quite different from the national one. BC physicians have adoption rates close to 80%, and will ... the large number of physicians already using EMRs means BC’s early adopters are reaching further to optimize their ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2013
... first time or after 2 years from the first visit.[ 2 ] The BC Medical Association also supported the use of serology as ... to see the trend of H. pylori diagnostic test usage in BC from 2001 to 2011. De-identified data on serological testing were obtained from the BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory and ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Morgan Price, MD, PhD, CCFP, December 2013
... announced A GP for Me to improve primary care in BC. Its goals are to confirm and strengthen the relationship ... finding local solutions to local challenges. A number of BC communities are now actively exploring ways to meet the ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD December 2013
... in the October issue of the  BCMJ  [The senior driver in BC: Reaching the 80-year milestone  BCMJ  2013;55:380 ]. A ...
MDs To Be / BY: Pretty Verma, December 2013
... sexual assault centre in Maple, Ontario. When she moved to BC to join family in Ladner, she continued her practice and ...
News December 2013
Labor and birth information for every hospital in BC is now available to pregnant women, health care providers, ... The information is being provided by Perinatal Services BC (PSBC), an agency of the Provincial Health Services ... rate.  PSBC collects perinatal information through the BC Perinatal Data Registry, using five indicators to ...
News December 2013
... Treatment as Prevention (TasP) strategy pioneered by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE ) has been adopted by Brazil as the country’s ... of the virus. The strategy was introduced by the BC-CfE in 2006, and endorsed by the Joint United Nations ...
News December 2013
BC physicians can now participate in special cultural ... contributors to the program include representatives from BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, the University of ... Nations Health Council, the Métis Provincial Council of BC, and other organizations. Funding to provide physicians ...
News&Notes / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2013
... Columbia eHealth Strategy Office, with funding from the BC Ministry of Health, has developed the Health-e-Apps ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD December 2013
With 80% of target family physicians and specialists in BC now using EMRs (85% including practices currently in the ... benefit to their practice (for more details visit www.pito.bc.ca/support/post-implementation/support ).  Dr Gerrit ... primary care indicators (for details visit www.pito.bc.ca/support/communities-of-practice/idp ). These examples ...