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Bridgepoint Active Healthcare

Bridgepoint Active Healthcare manages, delivers, researches and teaches leading healthcare practices so that people with complex health conditions can live better. Bridgepoint Active Healthcare is made up of the Bridgepoint Hospital, Bridgepoint Family Health Team, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation and Bridgepoint Foundation. Our vision for patients is one of active healthcare, where patients, […]

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Making Care Mobile: Shifting Perspectives on the Virtualization of Healthcare

CIO Connect Breakfast, June 11, 2013 Click here to download the full PDF Read more here www.pwc.com/ca

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Three quick things you should know about Obamacare

Hi all —  In the past few days, we’ve received three really interesting new pieces of information about the health care law, and we wanted to share these data points with you so that you get a big picture of how things are changing for the better as the law gets implemented. First, the Affordable […]

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Does Coca Cola have medicinal benefits? Has Coca-Cola’s secret recipe been cracked?

Learn more here. Head office has just become a Longwoods’ neighbour. . . so we are naturally curious.

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Judith Shamian now CEO of the International Council of Nurses

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Judith Shamian is the president of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). She was elected to the position at ICN’s May 2013 quadrennial congress in Melbourne, Australia. The term of the presidency is 2013-2017. Dr. Shamian is also the former president and CEO of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) and past president of the Canadian […]

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Canadian Obesity Network – March 12th, 2013 – Highlights

Canadian Obesity Network – March 12th, 2013 – Highlights Canadian Obesity Summit an Open Forum for Dialogue Dear CON-RCO Member, Preparations are well under way for the 3rd Canadian Obesity Summit in Vancouver this May, and I am convinced it will exceed all expectations. Since the event is as much about networking across different disciplines and sectors […]

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Wanna write?

Wanna write? Try a book review. Write a short story about an incident at work or school. Did you witness a special moment that made a significant difference to a patient. Do you want to highlight a special act from emergency responders? Did that stern head nurse with that starched collar help you over a […]

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Rod of Asclepius | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Greek mythology and Greek society The Rod of Asclepius takes its name from the god Asclepius, a deity associated with healing and medicinal arts in Greek mythology. Asclepius’s attributes, the snake and the staff, sometimes depicted separately in antiquity, are combined in this symbol.[2] The most famous temple of Asclepius was at Epidaurus in north-eastern […]

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Copyright and your right

For our readers Material published by Longwoods often has a copyright attached to it and so we ask you not to republish it. The exception is any article marked as “open access” displaying a symbol at the end like this: “oa” That means “free availability and unrestricted use.” Go for it. For other material you can […]

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Longwoods Essays | shorts (< 900 words)

What Ontarians (and their Auditor General) Should be Asking About Physician Pay    Steven Lewis Learning about How to Change Care Delivery through Experience in Practice   Peter Margolis, MD, PhD Will operate for food: The implications of physician unemployment.  Dr. R. Sacha Bhatia Medical schools are starting to train doctors to be less intimidating to patients. […]

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