Health committee  Doctors' egos is another.

Health committee  What I mean by doctors' egos is that it's generational. We were raised, trained, and streamlined into being the captain of the team, and then they expected all the captains of the team to be equal team players, and that created a bit of dissonance. That's the ego part: “Wait a mi

Health committee  My hospital is part of a community health centre which involves those individuals you mentioned, from community members to social workers, and that's how we do it. We create healthy communities.

Health committee  The patient is always the centre of it, and the most important.

Health committee  From the provider side, in the package you guys will get later, when it's translated, there is one nice picture that shows the leaky pipe model. It's the various different leaks in the system that cause physicians to not adapt new information, whether it be information technology

Health committee  Some medical records will allow you to do that. If you were my patient, I would have to tell you that sometimes I am not the best person to manage this. I would then have you see the diabetic educator who can take the time and sit down with you for an hour. I would have you see

Health committee  It would depend on whether it is a diagnostic technology. If we're using it to diagnose things or it's a treatment type of thing, there are evidence-based methods to do it that way. I look at what evidence there is for implementing it. If it improves patient care, that's great. I

Health committee  If the federal government provided high-speed Internet access to all of these locations, then they would through telemedicine, through FaceTime, through whatever, be able to have access to those sub-specialties or specialties that they need when they need to. Otherwise, they woul

Health committee  They usually drive everywhere because it's so far to get to anywhere, and they're usually on their feet all day doing agricultural stuff. I don't know if it's about getting them to exercise or be more fit that way; I think it's more on the food side of things. That would be my im

Health committee  Okay. For JOG, just out of the gate, what we're going to do is take in the critically reviewed relevant information for rural practitioners, who then can say, “Yes, it makes sense in my rural area.” The problem with current medical knowledge translation is that it typically takes

Health committee  Health literacy of course correlates to health outcome. We really don't know individually what people's health literacy is, and that's so key in the relationship. That's why just last year we validated the REALM, rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine, short form. There is

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. To try to answer it, it would be best to say that yes, there are barriers with it when it comes to using the technology, so what we need to do is make sure that everybody has access to primary care. And when I say primary care, I don't mean

Health committee  I've been part of the University of Western Ontario Their program was originally called SWARM. Then it was changed to SWOMEN, the Southwestern Ontario Medical Education Network, and it was started by Dr. James Rourke. We wrote a paper about 20 years ago about if you grow the doct

Health committee  The federal government could help support farming families to have their children go off to post-secondary education. Doctors are now graduating with $100,000 to $150,000 of debt because of the huge tuition increases that have taken place over the last.... When I went through m

Health committee  If I understand it correctly, Dr. Fry, your question is how to reach the people who aren't really reachable or aren't motivated, and that's why we're not reaching them. The answer is to go to them. You identify them by taking the top 10% users of emergency departments, the most f