Health committee  Yes, certainly. When we designed the clinic we wanted it to function very well and be a nice pleasant place to be in to work. I can relay the story of my patient with cancer that you've alluded to. When people come in, if it doesn't look like a hospital emergency room or a doc

Health committee  Yes, I think it's pretty important overall for everyone, including the staff. If we have good staff and good doctors, and if it's a pleasant place to be in, we'll have less turnover. That's what you want for the patients ultimately.

Health committee  That's a good question, and I don't think there's a very simple answer. The best way would be for everyone, as a whole, to negotiate for either one system or systems that can fully communicate properly with each other. Right now we're just so fragmented. Our system can actually

Health committee  I think a lot of family physicians' offices probably have somewhat similar technologies, but we're all fully electronic. All our records are fully electronic. All the interface is electronic. Our interface with our pharmacy is all electronic. We have portable ultrasounds and Dopp

Health committee  Yes, that's correct.

Health committee  Yes. When we designed our clinic we wanted it to be a nice place to work. In some of the other clinics I worked at in the past, you went into work and you got depressed a little bit because of the paint scheme and all that kind of thing. When we did our clinic, we put a little bi

Health committee  Thank you. My clinic model is fee-for-service. We don't get any support or funding through any public sources, with the exception, in Manitoba, of the electronic medical record program. The idea is for physician offices to convert from paper to electronic records. We do receive

Health committee  In answer to your last question, we're fee-for-service at my clinic, but when we're doing our hallway consults, all it is is, “Dr. Boroditsky, can you come in and look at this rash with me?” We're not double-billing or anything like that. When we are utilizing some of our docto

Health committee  Yes, just let me know how many you need. They are more than happy to send it out, but they just don't want to send out a whole bunch if they don't know.... The whole idea with the “Patient's Home” is that everyone have access to a family doctor in a timely fashion and that the m

Health committee  Thanks, everyone, for having me out today, and my thanks to my clinic doctors and staff. I met Joy when I started to create a new clinic just outside of Winnipeg. We are a 10-physician clinic just outside the perimeter, only a couple of minutes from East St. Paul, Manitoba. Why