Myhealth system being modernised, making it easier for patients to use -...
The online myhealth system is being modernised, making it more accessible to patients and doctors, Parliamentary Secretary for Health Chris Fearne said today. Dr Fearne said the system,...
View ArticleSussan Ley to trial new e-health record for the Fitbit generation
One million Australians will trial the government's new e-health system in 2016, which will collate their medical records and make them available to health professionals, gym intsructers and even third...
View ArticleToward Protecting Participants’ Privacy
Anonymous patients whose DNA data is shared via a network of web servers—or beacons—set up by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health are at risk of being reidentified, according to a report...
View ArticleWHO for strengthening mental healthcare system
While the country’s elderly population is projected to increase in the next few decades, dementia may be a tough mental health challenge. Keeping this in view, it is important for the country to have a...
View ArticleTheranos is wrapped in scandal but goes hard to change laws to its advantage
Imagine walking into your local pharmacy and ordering one of hundreds of blood tests from a menu, no doctor’s note required. You will receive the results in a matter of hours and decide for yourself...
View ArticleImmigrants, the poor, rural Ontarians struggle to get health care
The doctor is usually in. But a new report says that some Ontarians — new immigrants, the poor, and those living in rural or remote parts of the province — struggle to get the primary care they need....
View ArticleDisability hub is not a ‘gilded cage’ – Parliamentary Secretary Justyne Caruana
Parliamentary Secretary Justyne Caruana said that the disability hub will not be a ‘gilded cage’, and gave assurances that it will not result in any segregation of the people with disability who will...
View ArticleThe scary platelet countdown
As Dengue spreads its tentacles far and wide, patients are caught in a twister of dropping blood platelet counts. The drop in Ranji’s platelet count was sharp, dramatic and near-fatal. Frantic, his...
View ArticleHeal Now In-Network With Anthem Blue Cross Of California Leading On-Demand...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Heal, the on-demand service for doctor house calls, announced today it is now in-network with Anthem Blue Cross of California, to provide many of its...
View ArticleWomen take plea for help to Queen's Park
Every day, Brooklyn Mills hopes she’ll wake up from a horrible nightmare. “I don’t think there is ever a day when I don’t feel like crap,” Mills, 22, told a news conference at Queen’s Park Wednesday....
View ArticleWynne's cuts hurt new docs
It was while she spent three years by her late sister’s side — as she battled a rare form of cancer — that Dr. Jennifer Zelovitzky discovered her true calling. She’d been an actress and model for five...
View ArticleNew system to make it easier to spot opiate addiction
Ohio will make it easier for doctors and pharmacists to access a state system for tracking opiate painkillers. Gov. John Kasich announced today that the state will provide a...
View ArticleHub for persons with disability to create an artificial community – Joe...
Former KNPD chairman Joe Camilleri believes the recently proposed hub for people with disability will create an artificial community, rather than promote community living. The hub, announced in the...
View ArticleEuropean doctors lash out against government over changes to law
European doctors have lashed out against the government following the latter’s plans to eliminate the need for plans for public hospitals to be scrutinised for environmental regulations. In a letter...
View ArticleDocs take action against Wynne government
Doctors Nadia Alam and Kulvinder Gill are so concerned with the Kathleen Wynne government’s random health-care cuts, they created a Facebook forum where patients, doctors and nurses can swap stories...
View ArticleDisrupting Today's Healthcare System
This week in San Diego, Singularity University is holding its Exponential Medicine Conference, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today's broken healthcare system. Healthcare...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Medical School Students
Medicine has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. We've waxed extreme from a strongly relationship-driven practice to a technologically-advanced and financially-driven system. The time has come...
View ArticleHelp comes home
Easy access With the advancement of technology comes convergence. Thanks to this, secondary services like plumbing, repair works, and beauty and wellness, are now at one’s doorstep at the click of the...
View ArticleVoalte, Uber, SMH Unite to Help Address Patient Transportation Challenges...
SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Voalte, the leader in healthcare communication technology, today announced at its inaugural client conference, VUE15, an initiative with Uber and Sarasota...
View ArticleA sad and tragic time for disabled people – former KNPD chairman
The former chairman of the Kunsill Nazzjonali persuni b’Dizabbilta (National Council for Disabled People) said that it is a sad and tragic time for disabled people, given the way the government is...
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