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Letters / BY: Laurence W. Lee, MD, FRCPC October 2017
... without the need to repeat data entry. The history of past health would be repeated automatically on the admitting ... data would be added the next time in the history of past health section. A discharge summary could be primarily ... and updating both the consumer and the provider at every health care encounter, completely eliminating the need to ...
Letters / BY: Mike Figurski, MD, CA-CPHIMS October 2017
... [ BCMJ  2017;59:256 ]. I find inordinate delays in health authority transcription to be the major factor in ... and transcription. I have no doubt that the Interior Health Authority (IHA) is working hard to improve this ... to develop communication channels outside of the health authority.  Physicians are considered independent ...
News / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP October 2017
... GC passed motions on issues such as immigrant and refugee health, physical activity, cultural awareness, antimicrobial ... the debate on motions, we attended sessions on physician health and medical assistance in dying that advanced debate on these issues. Health Minister Dr Jane Philpott spoke to the GC and took ...
News / BY: Channelle Sawyer October 2017
... what you do best and outsource the rest.” Your financial health and, more specifically, your insurance planning, is a ...
News October 2017
... more about Dr Nelems’s many contributions to Canadian health care, read the In Memoriam piece published in the June ...
News / BY: Shannon McDonald, MD October 2017
The recent transition of responsibility for First Nations health care in BC from Ottawa to BC First Nations is ... 1 October 2017 when in partnership with the BC Ministry of Health, Pharmacare Plan W officially took over providing ... supplies, and pharmacy services for eligible First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) clients. For First Nations in BC, ...
News October 2017
... and delegate these communications to their MOAs and allied health professionals. This incentive will be applicable for ...
News October 2017
... most overdoses are reversed by paramedics and other health care workers, as well as loved ones of people who use ... . Visit  www.bcmhsus.ca  to find out about mental health and substance use services available in BC.  Number ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD October 2017
... doctor. In fact, according to the Canadian Institute of Health Information, we have the distinction of having the ... what Canada needs to fix [in terms of] its systemic health-care woes is to create a semblance of a system. What ... that are owned and administered by the government and health authorities—but these are few. In BC and across ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2017
... I wanted to share information in a timely way with other health care providers. I wanted to be able to look back at ... tetanus vaccination. My MOA and I notified public health, stocked up on tetanus vaccine, made a little template ... do (e.g., infant immunizations) or an important patient health outcome (e.g., blood glucose control for a patient ...