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A golden chance to fix home-care mess
… CCACs… have unilaterally cut off in-home services for needy patients or denied services, particularly in rehab therapy areas, to patients discharged from hospitals… the panel believes it’s time to blow up or radically alter the role of the CCACs and LHINs. Currently, the CCACs are at the centre of the “structure.” But in its report the panel virtually ignores them. Instead, it suggests LHINs should oversee home care, identifying and correcting gaps in care and bringing more accountability to the sector.
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Ontario’s home care system should be overhauled now
Bringing Care Home, contains 16 recommendations to streamline and integrate services to make it easier for patients and caregivers to navigate a system that is now overly complex and unresponsive. As the experts say, the current home care system simply “fails to meet the needs of clients and families.” … the Ontario Health Coalition is recommending… an end to the current mix of private and public health care services. (It argues the home care system should be a public, not-for-profit service.)
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Ontario’s curious shift away from family health teams
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins… intention is not to turn back the clock on primary-care reform, but to nudge family doctors toward under-served pockets of the province while taking a “hard look” at how family health teams are functioning… The Conference Board of Canada review… concluded that the model performed well in some ways, but fared poorly in others, including in recruiting and retaining other health professionals whose provincially funded salaries are not always competitive with what they might earn in the private sector.
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Medicare, Canada’s symbol of contradiction
All the results of this survey, and others like it, suggest is perhaps a greater receptivity to other kinds of change than many politicians think… Among the complexities and contradictions of Canadian health care is that the public sees medicare as a national symbol even though it’s mostly the provinces that deliver the goods… We have a series of provincial health-care systems that offer so-so results by international standards for what the public sees, strangely, as a national symbol.
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Canada wastes badly needed medical talent
… the analysts turned their sights on the health-care system, looking for bottlenecks, barriers and structural problems. They struck gold. The delivery of medical services was riddled with conflicting incentives, professional rivalries and misallocated resources: – Hospitals couldn’t afford to bring in new specialists… – Specialists couldn’t earn enough to cover their costs… – The system provided no latitude for bargaining… (&)… Most hospitals provided established specialists with preferential access to medical facilities
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Provinces, doctors need to defuse compensation
… increased payments for physician services have been the principal driver of increased health costs in recent years, outpacing spending on both drugs and hospitals. Physicians bill $33.3-billion a year in Canada, with virtually no accountability. In other words, we don’t know if we get value for money… What we do know is that the current method of remuneration – paying a set fee for individual medical acts – is largely unwieldy and inefficient.
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London-led study shows small changes in care for patients leaving psychiatric hospitals can save money – and lives
… a $1.4-million, two-year, provincewide project led by London researchers has shown two simple measures — ensuring hospital staff remain involved with a patient until the person has solid community care, and providing a trained peer support worker — can save lives and cut the high cost to taxpayers of keeping people in hospital beds…
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What’s really to blame for ER congestion?
During the holiday season… they reduce or close a range of services, from hospital beds to primary care clinics, and funnel patients to jam-packed emergency rooms. System administrators create a perfect storm of misery, then they have the unmitigated gall to issue PSAs telling people to stay away from hospital ERs because they’re too busy… What flu season does, more than anything else, is remind us that our health system is too often contemptuous of patients.
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Computer taught how to read human genome
Now a research team… at the University of Toronto has created a sophisticated computer tool that uses machine learning — and hardware borrowed from the video-game industry — to peer into parts of the genome that were once “black boxes,” and to rank how likely variants in those regions are to give rise to diseases, including autism. “We’ve increased by a factor of 10 how much of the genome we can analyze and understand,”
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Tiny gene fragments linked to altered brain development in autism, U of T scientists say
Tiny, poorly understood gene fragments are linked to altered brain development in autism, according to new research from scientists at the University of Toronto… Microexons are tiny stretches of DNA that code for equally tiny parts of proteins… They… analyzed samples of brain tissues from individuals with autism spectrum disorder, and found many microexons were missing in the genetic messages.
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