Health Policy News

A release on Wednesday said the government has ‘provided direction’ to the Ontario College of Pharmacists with a view to making the necessary regulatory changes.

Alberta’s privacy commissioner and physicians’ regulatory college are reminding doctors wishing to use AI scribes that they need to submit a privacy impact assessment to the privacy commissioner’s office before using them—even for scribes approved under the Canada Health Infoway program.

Infants under eight months will be offered their first vaccine dose before they are discharged from the hospital as newborns or through their primary care provider.

The move comes as nurses made the rare decision last month to declare the hospital too dangerous to work in, otherwise known as ‘grey listing.’

Physician recruiters getting more sophisticated as environment they face getting more complex.

The Ontario Nurses’ Association says it is asking the Victorian Order of Nurses for fair pay for home care nurses, who have to deal with a wide variety of issues other nurses do not.

Fee-for-service is still the bedrock on which diverse payment plans rest.

Police arrested the group’s leader, Romana Didulo, property owner Ricky Manz and 14 others on Wednesday in the village west of Regina, after obtaining a search warrant to enter the site.