by Allan Katz | Feb 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
L’AMOM réclame l’abolition des PREM, qui dicte où les nouveaux médecins de famille peuvent pratiquer, arguant qu’il est désuet et néfaste. Conçue pour répartir uniformément les médecins, cette mesure a aggravé les disparités régionales et décourage...
by Allan Katz | Feb 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
(Health Affairs) Call me old school, but when Don Berwick talks…I listen. Investment in #primarycare, #SDOH, incentivizing #population health, and improving #transparency and #accountability sound like the ideal menu for #Canada, too. (Health Affairs) Berwick et...
by Allan Katz | Feb 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
(CTV) The New Brunswick language commissioner found that the #eVisitNB system was 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝘁. A 🚧caution 🚧for other provinces with similar legislation on how to move ahead with their #ehealth and...
by Allan Katz | Feb 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Frontenac Lennox & Addington OHT #FLAOHT, its primary care partners, the City of Kingston and #GreaterNapanee connected over 13,000 people to primary care in less than a year! Congratulations to everyone involved! This success needs to be 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 📣...
by Allan Katz | Feb 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
(@TheChartisGroup) 𝗡𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗳 of all rural hospitals in the US are 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗱. Of the 48 states with rural hospitals, 38 have at least one at risk of closure. #NoMarginNoMission #ruralhealth CCRH WP – 2025 Rural health state of the state (February...
by Allan Katz | Feb 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
(@CDCgov) In 2023, there was a drop in the US #maternalmortalityrate for all but Black women. The maternal mortality rate for Black women was 𝟱𝟬.𝟯 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘀, compared to 𝟭𝟰.𝟱 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻, 𝟭𝟮.𝟰 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟭𝟬.𝟳 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻...