Best Practices

The wisdom of experts in health informatics will be presented by the National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI) in a new advanced course scheduled for Oct. 1, 2012, in Toronto.

TORONTO | The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) says it is "extremely disappointed" with the provincial government's reported intention to cap salaries for newly hired hospital executives at $418,000 a year.

LAVAL, QUE. _ The hemodynamics team at the Hôpital de la Cité-de-la-Santé of the Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Laval has implanted the first bioresorbable coronary drug-eluting vascular scaffold in Canada.

A house call program may not always reduce health care costs in treating older adults with numerous chronic conditions, but there may be other benefits, according to the August American Journal of Managed Care.