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eHealthRecord.info Vol. 7 No. 21, October 13, 2010

Vol. 7 No. 21, October 13, 2010 Fact and Stats Only 6.7% of US physicians e-mail their patients about clinical issues, according to a new study from the Center for Studying Health System Change. For the study, researchers surveyed more than 4,200 office-based physicians in 2008. Overall, about one-third of office-based physicians reported that information […]

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How to Get Published in a Longwoods Journal: Tip #1

Here we are the week after Thanksgiving. Fall is in its full glory – and Ania and I are buried in manuscripts! An awful lot of you spent your summer holidays in front of your computers. That’s not a complaint. We’ve received some excellent and exciting material over the past few weeks. But with six journals, two […]

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Commission to Promote Sustainable Child Welfare

On July 5, 2010 the Commission released its first report, Towards Sustainable Child Welfare in Ontario. The report examines Ontario’s child welfare system as it stands today and how its policies, funding and service delivery have grown and changed in the past ten years. Download the PDF here: The Commission to Promote Sustainable Child Welfare. […]

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ehealthrecord.info Vol. 7 No. 20, September 29, 2010

Vol. 7 No. 20, September 29, 2010 Fact and Stats The number of office-based U.S. healthcare professionals who use electronic prescribing systems has increased significantly in recent years, according to data released by electronic prescribing network operator Surescripts. About 200,000 office-based prescribers – or about one-third of office-based healthcare workers – currently use e-prescribing systems. The latest figure is […]

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Human Contact

It is official: back-to-school is upon us. Since it may be a while before students, teachers and parents settle down in their routines, it may be wise to accept that things could get chaotic for a while (see Neil Seeman’s take on back to school). Despite the craziness associated with first weeks of September, it’s […]

Tags: Ania Bogacka, Dianne Foster Kent, editorial, Longwoods Publishing
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Longwoods eLetter September 21, 2010

September 21, 2010 Quote “. . . whether there are (or are not) enough healthcare providers is not simply a question of numbers of health professionals. From changes in health and healthcare to shifts in the worklife and practice patterns of professionals, a better understanding of the wide range of factors affecting healthcare providers is […]

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Curbing Childhood Obesity

A Federal, Provincial and Territorial Framework for Action to Promote Healthy Weights Download the full PDF here

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ehealthrecord.info Vol. 7 No. 19, September 15, 2010

Vol. 7 No. 19, September 15, 2010 Fact and Stats Although the number of U.S. hospitals with either basic or comprehensive electronic health records increased by 3.2 percentage points in 2009, only 2% of those hospitals have EHRs that would meet the federal government’s “meaningful use” criteria, according to a study published in the journal […]

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Longwoods eLetter September 14, 2010

Quote When former United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having an “improper relationship” with Monica Lewinsky, I learned more than I needed to know about the appropriate duties of an intern. Around the same time, Canada had its own intern scandal.” Neil Seeman in Interns over 40 for Healthcare. Essay Ontario Generic Drug Wars, […]

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Surgical Safety Checklist

Does your OR use one? Here is London Health Sciences Centre’s version. Click here to download the PDF The New England Journal of Medicine article and reference: Click here to download the PDF

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