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Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, September 2011
... anymore!” She firmly believes that EMRs and e-health are the future. “I have been waiting a long time for ... guidelines with patient-specific goals to improve health outcomes.  “Using EMRs to help in clinical ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC November 2011
... and another one from the chair of the Alternative Health and Therapeutics Committee, COHP of BCMA.[ 2 , 3 ] In ...
News / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD March 2011
... the belief that if we as physicians don’t participate in health care management and change issues, someone else will. ... realize that we wield huge power and influence in the health care systems. They are visionaries who have also ... of department head, chief of staff, dean of medicine, or health care administrators. It will also appeal to those ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD May 2011
... do so, knows how much anesthesiologists contribute to the health care team. Anything that limits the availability of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rishi K. Bhalla, PhD, September 2011
... age 60 and older. It is associated with several public health concerns, including increased mortality rates, physical disability, functional decline, increased health care utilization, and increased suicide rate.[ 1-3 ]  ... 6 years later.[ 20 ] Longitudinal data from the Women’s Health and Aging Study similarly found that baseline ...
Letters / BY: Sheri Souch, October 2011
... Denial: The Lyme Disease Epidemic: A Canadian Public Health Disaster , edited by Helke Ferrie.  Within the covers ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2011
... circumstances. One would think that stewards of the health care system would recognize such a situation and ... the utility of the above value-added offerings at Inspire­Health might wonder how patients attending such a program ... not—are more likely to come from the upper part of the health bell curve no matter what their disease. The fact that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aaron Talsky, MD, January/February 2011
... residual neurological impairments. A National Institute of Health panel estimates that 2.5 to 6.5 million Americans ...
News / BY: Julie Kwan, BBA, CFP, CLU, GBA April 2011
... be deductible, placing you in a neutral tax position. Health and dental insurance These premiums are a ... you receive are tax free. If you belong to the BCMA Health Benefits Trust Fund (HBTF) Core-Plus Plan, your ... then tax deduc­tible. This ability to pay for and deduct health care expenses directly through the HBTF Core-Plus Plan ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Dixon June 2011
... the best scientific evidence on a broad range of workplace health and safety issues. In 2000, the WorkSafeBC Research ... from measuring the full costs and benefits of occupational health and safety interventions in health care to studying heart disease in firefighters and ...