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Future of Health Care 2024
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Unlocking $500 Million in Savings: The Power of Digital Health Tools
E-prescribing for enhanced efficiency, patient care, and cost savings. Canada’s healthcare system is grappling with significant challenges — shortages of doctors, crowded emergency departments, and extreme staff burnout. The complexity of these issues, coupled with competing priorities across provinces, makes it difficult to find effective solutions. Canada also trails behind G7 counterparts in adopting digital...
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Personalizing Depression Treatment: <br> A Better Path Forward
For Canadians experiencing depression, a simple DNA test may shine a light on the most efficient treatment — getting help, faster. In Canada, two out of three people treated for depression do not achieve remission when given a standard treatment. As a result, many depressed Canadians endure multiple medication trials, with some never achieving...
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Conference Board of Canada Report Highlights Significant Potential of PAs
Employing more physician assistants across Canada can improve patient care, support current health care workers, and provide financial efficiencies. The Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) has unveiled a report, Unlocking Potential: Exploring Physician Assistant Funding Models and Impact Potential for Three Practice Settings, that highlights the important role that Physician Assistants (PAs) are playing in health systems across Canada,...
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Fueling Health-Care Innovation Through Partnerships and Collaboration
Innovation, collaboration and partnerships go hand in hand. It’s a winning combination that informs everything Communitech does. For nearly three decades, this Waterloo Region tech hub has been fueling Canadian innovation through its “superpower” — the ability to bring diverse partners and stakeholders together to collaborate on solutions to tough challenges. Take health care, for...
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Working Towards a Better Future: A Voice for Black Health
The Black Physicians’ Association of Ontario (BPAO) advocates for Black students and communities in health care, providing programs for careers and education. Despite being the third largest minority group in Canada1, Black communities are considerably underrepresented in the health care sector. They make up only 2.3 per cent of Ontario’s physicians2 despite being 4.7 per...
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Manulife Group Benefits: So Much More than a Traditional Claims Payer
With a benefits plan powered by Manulife, every action can help build towards a healthier future. For decades, Manulife has been one of the most recognized and well-known Group Benefits providers in Canada, serving approximately five million members through its group benefits offerings. But today, Manulife is in the process of transforming its Group Benefits...