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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD November 2013
In January 2011 the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) Personal Health Risk ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2013
... Columbia is now at 80% of target full-service family practice and specialist physicians, one of the highest rates ... records and patient care. EMR innovation is improving practice for many physicians by enabling proactive care, ... a GP in Kel-owna who has adopted EMR technology in his practice, says that having an EMR makes him a better doctor. ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) November 2013
... make the most of the technology. These include: •    Practice automation coaches help physicians move from simple ... •    Vendor training. •    Communities of practice (18 in the province) and local user groups. ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD December 2013
... on as a favor, back in the days when there was room in my practice. But as I ascended the years, through the pictures, ... 35 years’ worth of paper charts. I will have left my practice by then, if not the planet. When these electronic ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2013
... specific, expensive UBT test is the recommended diagnostic practice, and could have the secondary benefit of resulting ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2013
... commitment since Flexner to link medical education and practice to the best available evidence so that better ... the most part the polarity has been toward evidence-based practice. Thus it is troubling that the claim that only 10% ... 10% to 20% of all procedures currently used in medical practice have been shown to be efficacious by controlled ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2013
... question for me is, what has this got to do with the practice of medicine? I became a physician to take care of ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD December 2013
... and well-being of individuals and society through ethical practice, profession-led regulation, and high personal ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Morgan Price, MD, PhD, CCFP, December 2013
... initiative will provide $40 million to Divisions of Family Practice over the next 3 years to conduct research evaluating ... care capacity. The Cowichan Valley Division of Family Practice was one of three divisions to prototype the ... (part of the UBC Faculty of Medicine Department of Family Practice), and the University of Victoria’s eHealth ...
Letters / BY: John Walton, MD December 2013
... could be used for many specialty consults. Group practice of this sort would help to restore professionalism ...