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Albertans will be able to start paying out-of-pocket for key preventative diagnostic tests, without a referral from a doctor, on Friday.
The new system, which has already sparked concern among doctors and some health care advocacy groups, has been in the works for months.
It allows Albertans to self-refer and pay for MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds and X-rays.
Canada’s health-care system is chronically understaffed: Six million Canadians are without a regular healthcare provider. A recent Health Canada study concluded that the country’s medical schools cannot train enough doctors to ever close the gap (to meet demand, we’d need another 22,000 physicians). And of the doctors we have, nearly half are feeling burned out.
Artificial intelligence is an obvious solution to our lack of people power. It is already at work behind the scenes in hospitals, reviewing medical images and monitoring patients’ charts for signs of deterioration. Nearly 60 per cent of doctors who use AI say it helps them speed through administrative tasks.
A Fraser Institute study released on Tuesday showed the financial impact of long wait times for surgery and treatment in Canada’s health-care system.
The study showed that an estimated 1.4 million people were waiting for necessary treatment, costing $4.2 billion in lost wages and productivity.
“Canadians waiting for health care aren’t just waiting for care or deteriorating medically or risking a poor outcome from treatment when they finally get the treatment they need,” Nadeem Esmail, director of health policy studies at the Fraser Institute, said.
A new agreement between the Alberta government and the province's doctors should help bolster some underpaid medical specialties and improve patient access, says Alberta Medical Association president Dr. Brian Wirzba.
The government announced in a news release on Thursday that doctors will receive $172.3 million in retroactive pay for the last fiscal year. The agreement comes after an arbitrator in February ruled doctors should receive a three per cent salary increase in the final year of a 2022-2026 master agreement with the province.
Talia Hassan, a first-year medical student at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), stands behind a table full of pamphlets and forms at the Sayeda Khadija Centre mosque as a young member of Mississauga, Ont.’s Muslim community shyly approaches her table, showing interest in the CPR manikin. Hassan helps guide her hands over the resuscitation manakin’s chest, teaching her how to apply pressure to the right area.
Dr. Sarah Cook said nearly 6 million Canadians don’t have access to a family doctor
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is urging the federal government to reduce administrative burdens and barriers for family physicians so that they can deliver better patient care.
During a news conference on Friday, CFPC president Dr. Sarah Cook said every Canadian deserves access to a family doctor.
"Not just access to any care, not episodic care, not a walk-in when things fall apart," she said. "But timely, continuous, co-ordinated care with a family doctor who knows them."
Internist Dr. Robert Beck, at the Royal Jubilee Hospital. Beck hosts a podcast called The Interesting MD where he explores the differences between the Canadian and U.S. health-care systems and aspects of navigating a move to Canada. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST
Of all the books oncologist Kira MacDougall has collected, her favourite is her Canadian passport — it’s allowed her to track gorillas and scale Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, scuba dive in Iceland, and climb glaciers in Ecuador.
A new survey by the Canadian Medical Association finds doctors are increasingly intervening to address harm caused by patients acting on false health information found online.
The Physician Pulse survey, published Tuesday, reveals that 97 per cent of responding doctors have had to intervene to prevent harm or address consequences after a patient followed false or misleading health information found online, including information from AI.
The Ontario government and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) say they're close to reaching a new compensation deal for doctors working in family health organizations, which is intended to draw more physicians to family medicine amid a provincial doctor shortage.
Both parties say the proposed changes, which would impact roughly 6,500 family physicians, are intended to encourage more doctors to practice or remain in comprehensive family medicine. Negotiations are happening as more than two million Ontarians are without a family doctor.
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