Health

Covid19: a new need for home health services

Posted on

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes in the last year and has demonstrated weaknesses in our healthcare systems, particularly in the realm of home healthcare. People with more fragile health are more likely to be severely affected by Covid-19 and therefore should limit their exposure to the virus as much as possible. In this regard, it is imperative to promote home healthcare in the context of the pandemic with hospitals becoming centers of contamination.  Generally speaking, the overall health […]

Health

Generational Cohesion in the Mobile Health World

Posted on

The future of mobile health, for advancement, development, and implementation reasons, can easily be argued to be in the hands of the millennial generation.  Young, aspiring minds are consistently pushing for new challenges, new aspirations, and new opportunities in the health field. With more and more students investing their careers within different spheres within the medical field, the future and potential for mobile health is bright.  As the responsibility of moving forward is tied to such valuable technology, comes the […]

Health

Opportunities & Threats – The Global Mobile Health Market

Posted on

The environment for the global mobile health (mHealth) market seems to have never been better.  During the forecasted period of 2018 – 2023, there is an expected growth of more than 28.7%, according to the Orbis Research report, Global Mobile Health. Investing in a smarter and more effective medical platform for communication and information sharing is taking health care deep into the future.  In the digital world that we live in today, the process towards consistent mobility is a necessity […]

Uncategorized

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Global Health

Posted on

Global Health is serious business.  Taking major advancements in terms of technology to better strengthen our world is necessary in order to move forward towards a healthier and cleaner future.  Though many positives have happened in global health in recent years, there are negatives to underline as well.  Moreover, underlining these negatives are difficult to do, but are merely a step in the right direction, or one would hope surely.  In this article, we’ll be examining the strengths, weaknesses, and […]

Uncategorized

Mobile Health into the 2020’s – Continuous Growth in Canada

Posted on

Most medical professionals would agree that mobile health technology, or simply “mHealth”, has the strong potential to leave a lasting mark on patient care; not only from a medical perspective, but in terms of the business and technology world as well. Moreover, not only does mHealth have this potential, but it is exemplifying this potential in real-time in today’s day and age. With the ever constant rise of technology and the adoption of mobile devices emerging in Canada today, specifically smartphones […]

Health

Comparing Canadian and French Healthcare

Posted on

Canada and France have a long lasting friendly partnership that has seen both parties achieve strong economic and medical success throughout their history. Both Canada and France share many qualities, in their language, immigration, and academia of course, and both are present within the current G-7 as members of the world’s strongest countries economically. Their respective healthcare systems, on the other hand, are different in structure, but thematically do have similarities. Through this article, we’ll analyze the internal elements of both the […]

Health

Ensuring Safety and Avoiding Threats to Medical Information

Posted on

In 2015, more than 750 data breaches occurred. In this, the top seven of which opened over 193 million personal records to fraud and identity theft.  Moreover, the top three breaches of data security were from the health care industry. In evidence, healthcare is important and keeping information on patient secure and confidential from the external world is quite vital to continuing the care process effectively. In June 2016 alone, more than 11 million health care records were exposed because of cyber-attacks. […]

Health

On the Rise: Emergency Department Waiting Times

Posted on

In terms of Canadian statistics, seeing most things on an increase, generally and from a nationalistic standpoint, is quite positive. Whether its GDP, or commercial revenue, seeing growth in Canadian numbers is important. Well, at least for the vast majority of the time. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), the amount of time most Canadians spend waiting in emergency departments to be admitted to hospital is on the ever most unfortunate rise. Furthermore, the emergency department (ED) length of stay […]

Uncategorized

Minimizing Error through Better Documentation

Posted on

In Canada, medical errors and hospital-acquired infections claim between a total of 30,000 and 60,000 lives annually.  This, naturally and understandably, leading to an outflow of anger, sadness, and heartbreak for Canadian families everywhere: an emotional distress for cases that could be quite mostly preventable according to doctors.  As it turns out, 138,000 (or one in every 18) patients admitted to a Canadian hospital in 2014-15 suffered some kind of harmful event that could potentially have been prevented, from getting […]