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AMS Healthcare Announces $1.5 million in Funding
For fellowships and grants in compassion and artificial intelligence!
#AMSFunding
Applications now open!
Visit amshealthcare.ca for details
Steve Lurie on social determinants & mental health in #HealthcareQuarterly. "We do know what to do...early psychosis intervention and Housing First. When these services are provided, there are major reductions in hospitalization and improvements in quality of life." www.longwoods.com/content/2768...
31.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Healthcare Policy Urgently Needs a Communications Lens - If communication considerations are left to the very end, we risk rolling out technically strong but socially fragile policies.
www.longwoods.com/content/2772...
Don't miss tomorrow's free webinar - Accelerating Together: How Public-Private Collaboration Drives System Change.
Speakers: Ashley Miller, Mike Forseth, Darek Szadkowski. @infoway-inforoute.bsky.social Sign up now www.longwoods.com/events/leade...
Intersectoral collaborations (ISCs) connect diverse stakeholders to take collective action on social issues. Women's Age Lab formed an ISC to address loneliness in older adults in Canada. Rachel Savage et. al describe this Canadian initiative to address loneliness. www.longwoods.com/content/2768...
27.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Canada, social prescribing is gaining traction, by integrating social prescribing into healthcare systems, policy makers can enhance well-being, reduce healthcare strain and promote social inclusion. @katemulligan.bsky.social www.longwoods.com/content/2768...
24.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This issue of HealthcarePapers tackles the challenging question about how to strengthen health system governance in Canada and helps to make sense of the wave of structural reforms underway across the country.
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As part of CIHI newest data platform, the Integrated interRAI Reporting System uses the latest technology and modern exchange standards. This allows for system-to-system communication and near real-time data submission for the home care and long-term care sectors. www.longwoods.com/content/2768...
21.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Longwoods Leadership Discussion series presents From Pilot to Practice: Scaling Healthcare Innovation. Watch this presentation from @trishbarbato.bsky.social Laura Pus, Linda Wilhelm, Sachia Bhatia & @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILGP...
20.10.2025 21:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Quarterly report from @icesontario.bsky.social in #HealthcareQuarterly. From Crisis to Silence: Systemic Failures in Mental Healthcare for Transgender and Gender Diverse People in Ontario by June Lam et. al. www.longwoods.com/content/2768...
20.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Also check out:
➡️ A Playbook for Medication Optimization for Sustainability in Inpatient Care:
cascadescanada.ca/resources/me...
➡️ deprescribing.org Guidelines and Algorithms:
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Connected Care in Action - Built to Scale: Rethinking Interoperability for Smarter, Connected Care
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This session explores how Canada is redefining interoperability as a strategic enabler of better care.
Third in our webinar series with Canada Health Infoway
The latest from Healthcare Quarterly -
Focus on the impact of the growing crisis of loneliness and isolation that has impacted so many Canadians, and a discussion of what leaders can do to support care in the community
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Island Health: Registered Nurse (Multiple Opportunities) #NursingJob #RNcareers
09.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PUBLIC HEALTH: A LAYER CAKE that leads to more birthdays How the layers of sanitation, nutrition, treatments, and vaccines all work together to reduce sickness and death from infectious disease —> @YaleSPH x @Your_Local_Epidemiologist x @ScienceWhizLiz x @ScienceWithAnni x @DrHigginsMd x @DrScottHadland
Public health is like cake. Cake has layers. Public health has layers. And when we stack the layers of public health – think combining sanitation + nutrition + medical treatments + vaccines + addressing social & environmental factors that impact health – we get to enjoy more birthday cakes.
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The AGE-WELL 10th Annual Conference, Oct. 22-23 in Montreal, showcases groundbreaking research in aging and technology. Bundled registration includes access to the 2025 envisAGE Forum. Register today: events.canplaninc.ca/age-well-env....
02.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The shift to virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, though essential from a public health perspective, introduced crowding-out effects in psychiatric service delivery" Read this Data Matter piece in #HealthcarePolicy from Angel Ruhil et. al. www.longwoods.com/content/2762...
01.10.2025 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When a presidential rant about Tylenol causes headaches for pregnant women and people with autism, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
29.09.2025 23:02 — 👍 40 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0Registration for the 2026 Physician Wellness Retreat is now open – spaces are limited!
Share the vibes with your partner, friends or peers and make actionable change towards personal and professional well-being.
Register now: www.cfpc.ca/en/education...
Opportunity was the focus of Dean @meganranney.bsky.social's address to the Yale School of Public Health community at our recent 2025 State of the School.
Read more in the latest edition of our Science & Society Magazine: m.yale.edu/dbcx
A collage of three photos: two people dressed in blue scrub gowns, scrub caps, gloves and masks, a staff member listening to the heartbeat of a patient laying in a hospital bed with a family member seated at the edge of the bed, and a physician inspecting the cast of a patient. Text reads: "Bowmanville Hospital Redevelopment Update" and the Lakeridge Health logo is in the bottom left corner.
Partnering with Infrastructure Ontario, we have reached another major milestone in the Bowmanville Hospital Redevelopment journey with the release of the Request for Proposals.
A new, modern, patient-centred hospital for the Durham Region is one step closer.
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4mMDibT
IFIC Canada: Transforming Care Through Integration
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This study by Christoph Schimmele & Feng Hou from Statistics Canada examines how immigrant status and place of education affect skill utilization among Canadians with a medical degree, using the 2021 Census of Population. #HealthcarePolicy www.longwoods.com/content/2762...
25.09.2025 15:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Research is key to a prosperous and resilient future for Canada.
In this uncertain moment, we must commit to supporting Canadian researchers.
Read the Coalition for Canadian Research’s open letter: www.healthcarecan.ca/2025/09/25/c...
#Coalition4CdnResearch #cdnpoli
In this commentary, one question Douglas Clark asks is "To what degree is it necessary to encourage the full spectrum of pharmaceutical research to achieve the critical mass necessary to generate the next lucky break?" www.longwoods.com/content/2766... #HealthcarePolicy #Pharma
24.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"...threat from industry and its allies that new drugs will not be made available if governments or regulatory agencies introduce measures that threaten the profits of pharmaceutical companies." - Joel Lexchin in Healthcare Policy www.longwoods.com/content/2766...
23.09.2025 17:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Sep 2024 Julia Abelson & team launched a special issue of Healthcare Policy on Public Engagement. Key insights into what more purposeful & equitable public engagement might look like, + common pitfalls in public engagement practices & how they can be avoided. www.longwoods.com/publications...
19.09.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A landmark new study led by Dr. Kevin Kuo of Scarborough Health Network shows promising results for better treatments & outcomes for patients with thalassemia.
This marks a breakthrough for patients & positions SHN as a leader in cutting-edge research: www.oha.com/news/lan...
How legalizing medically assisted death changed the possibilities for millions. 20 years ago, physician-assisted dying became legal in the Netherlands, and changed perspectives around the world, by Dr. Stefanie Green www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #MAiD
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