From ‘companion apps’ to ‘AI therapists’ to ‘mental wellness’ apps, AI’s use in mental health care is varied and hard to define, let alone write laws around.
Ottawa Public Health says it’s being forced to close a supervised consumption site in the city’s ByWard Market area because Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones hasn’t given her permission for it to remain open.
The government is engaged in a major standoff with physicians. Bill 106 aims, among other things, to link part of their compensation to performance indicators.
Pfizer also agreed to participate in a new website the administration plans to start called TrumpRx, which will allow people to buy drugs directly from manufacturers.
A new mandate letter to Mickey Amery from Premier Danielle Smith says the legislation should introduce ‘appropriate safeguards’ and prohibit mental illness from being a sole eligibility factor.
Athana Mentzelopoulos claims individuals high in government interfered in overpriced health deals for private surgical companies and medical suppliers while she was head of Alberta Health Services.
For many Ontario pharmacist owners, especially those serving the province’s most vulnerable patients, the title of ‘independent pharmacist’ is a bit of fiction.
