Bonnie Lysyk is investigating electronic health records, hospital operations, psychiatric hospitals, housing and support for people with mental health concerns and physician billing in her 2016 annual report. ...
Category: Health and COVID-19
Seen: Ontario Medical Association readying year-long 2018 election campaign
The OMA released a teaser video Thursday, announcing it will launch a year-long advocacy campaign on health care leading up to the 2018 election. ...
Government to amend Patients First bill to address privacy concerns
Meanwhile, doctors are organizing a standoff, in which they refuse to engage with Ontario's Local Health Integration Networks. ...
Ed Clark’s eHealth report doesn’t put a dollar figure to digital health assets after all
Ed Clark envisions a future where electronic health records are integrated, secure, used for research and available to patients. ...
Health minister says patient ombudsman’s request for oversight of LHINs is ‘worth considering’
Health Minister Eric Hoskins weighs shifting the responsibility for oversight of Local Health Integration Networks from the Ontario ombudsman to the patient ombudsman ...
Seen: Rally for housing hits Queen’s Park
As Ontario's housing bill winds its way through the legislative process, housing activists marched to Queen's Park Friday. ...
Ontario Medical Association wants an apology, retraction from Hoskins
Meanwhile, the doctors' association has offered its suggested amendments to the Patients First Act. ...
Health minister comes out swinging at the Ontario Medical Association’s ‘reprehensible’ tactics
The OMA is decrying the government's lack of consultation on the Patient First Act, while suggesting its members withdraw from consultations on the Patients First Act. ...
Happening: Sudbury promised $4.6M for hospital scanner project
The provincial government is funding the hospital renovations required to have a PET-CT scanner in Sudbury. ...
Liberal candidate to skip health-care debate out of respect for the OMA
Vicky Ringuette is planning to skip the debate hosted by Concerned Ontario Doctors because she respects the Ontario Medical Association's role as bargaining agent. ...