Health Insight
ISSUE: Patient Access (2021)
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Being Healthy Is a Privilege
Rare diseases invade bodies without invitation. They steal health, hope, and dreams, leaving families devastated and overwhelmed. Amelia and Gerard Pruchnicki know this better than most. Their 13-year-old son, Cole, has a mitochondrial disease, one of more than 7,000 rare diseases impacting individual Canadians, their families, our communities, and Canada’s health care system. As a...
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Accelerating Canada’s Rare Disease Drug Strategy, Post-Election
For the past year, the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders (CORD) has committed itself nonstop to the mission of forging a rare disease drug strategy that works for all Canadians and that simultaneously addresses the unique and sometimes disparate priorities of various stakeholders. CORD is determined to continue its trajectory toward implementing Canada’s Rare Drug...
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Revolutionary Imaging Technology Lets Doctors visualize the Whole Heart Like Never Before
Ventripoint Diagnostics’ heart analysis system provides cardiac metrics with an accuracy comparable to MRI with the ease of ultrasound, improving comfort and accessibility for patients. A new technology using artificial intelligence (AI) is allowing physicians to understand the whole heart in a way that wasn’t previously possible, helping improve care for patients with cardiac disease....
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Taking Control of Prostate Cancer
When you notice something different about your body — like a new growth or lump, increased fatigue, or dramatic weight loss — it needs to be checked out.
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How e-Prescribing Makes It Easier to Manage Your Health
When life gets busy, it can be easy to put your health on the backburner. With so many things to do in a day, it might feel like taking time for a doctor’s visit, or taking your prescription to the pharmacy, can always be done “tomorrow.” But it’s important that when life does get busy,...
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Leveraging Canada’s COVID-19 Testing Engine to Transform Cancer Prevention
With all the new health care infrastructure the COVID-19 pandemic response has provided, could HPV screening and cervical cancer prevention be the natural next step? The past year and a half has been a battle, and one of the underappreciated victories has been the rapid and successful roll-out of a tremendous new capacity for molecular...
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Raise Your Voice to Make Parkinson’s a Priority in Canada
Parkinson Canada is calling on the newly-elected government to make Parkinson’s a priority – and we need your help. More than 100,000 people live with Parkinson’s in this country. That number will grow by 30 people tomorrow and 30 more the day after that until we reach 200,000 Canadians within the next 10 years. People...
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Find Walk-In Clinic Wait Times with Just a Click to Avoid Long Lines
Medimap aims to make health care more convenient and accessible, allowing patients to find nearby medical appointments quickly and easily. Almost five million Canadians aged 12 and older don’t have a primary care provider, according to the Canadian Medical Association. Because they must rely on walk-in medical clinics for their primary care needs, these clinics...
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Patient Access
The Patient Access and Empowerment campaign aims to inform Canadians about the important aspects of their health care system.