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News May 2017
... children. Intensive care teams can collaborate with health care providers in communities across the province to ... leaving their community.  Tele-PICU is part of Child Health BC’s Children’s Virtual Care initiative that ... Children’s Hospital. Tele-PICU was established by Child Health BC in partnership with the Island and Interior Health ...
Billing Tips / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD June 2017
... developed in the US and is a widely used population-based health care tool. In BC, the ACG system was implemented in ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2017
... provide the citizens of BC with the highest standard of health care. He stated the Board functioned very successfully ... To Dr John Turner’s questions about increased Physician Health Program funding, Dr Curry stated that because the ... He said that the SGP would like to be more involved in health care transformation and advocacy and that their 34 ...
Editorials / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP November 2017
... we are talking about telehealth, telemedicine, mHealth, health IT, or virtual health, the digital health technologies used to improve care for patients are ...
Letters / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc January/February 2017
... for cost-effectiveness, we estimate that the Ministry of Health is realizing annual savings in antibiotic costs of ...
Letters / BY: Barbara Macleod, MD April 2017
I do not agree with Dr Dhanda that “all the eye health services provided by optometrists are provided by ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM June 2017
... include fever, headache, and myalgia. At the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory, mumps is diagnosed by detecting the mumps ... 2016, a cluster of mumps cases was identified in Fraser Health and spread to two other regions. From 1 April to 31 ... the onset of symptoms. For suspected acute mumps cases, health care providers should collect buccal swabs after ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Elliott Weiss, MD, FRCPC, MBA June 2017
... reduces absenteeism costs. The physiatrist is a patient-health advocate who seeks to establish an evidence-based ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Greg Meloche, PhD, RPsych September 2017
Workers with injuries that have a mental health component can be complex to diagnose, treat, and ... of care, and return to work. WorkSafeBC also has mental health specialists who actively monitor workers at risk of ... the first clinical documentation of a worker’s mental health issues, and initiates a formal assessment and ...
Editorials / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP December 2017
... technology can be used to improve access to and quality of health care. The history and future of the electronic medical ... • Why should physicians participate in this digital health transformation—and can we afford not to?  • What are the advantages of digital health for patients, health professionals, and health ...