Reading Time: 3 minutes Computer analysis can help healthcare system “learn” by providing information vital to improving care
Category: Alberta healthcare
Well meaning home care standards just wishful thinking
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nothing will change unless adequate resources are available and an effective system of inspection and enforcement is in place
Asthma rates rise in Alberta, but medication use flatlines
Reading Time: 4 minutes Doctors and patients need to learn more about how to control symptoms and avoid severe disease
Our health-care system is the very definition of insanity
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ideology is the problem, not the solution
Alberta has the highest rate of food insecurity in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Community-based participatory research is critical to uncover solutions
How exercise affects postmenopausal women
Reading Time: 4 minutes Marked improvement in endothelial function, which helps prevent plaque from building up in arteries
Living well – and dying well – with schizophrenia
Reading Time: 4 minutes Researcher pushes for better palliative care for people with chronic mental health conditions
A provincial remedy to the excesses of medical assisted suicide
Reading Time: 4 minutes MAiD is changing our health system to one designed to bury us at the lowest possible cost
Machine learning may help predict opioid prescription risk for patients
Reading Time: 3 minutes Current guidelines to determine which patients are at higher risk don’t catch everyone
Canada’s health-care system desperately needs creative leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Too bad there is none on offer