Health committee  I'll mention a few examples very quickly. Gateway was involved in a study called Artemis. The other name for it is basically “10,000 steps a day”. It looks at using the BlackBerry as the hand-held device that connects into a hub of your weight scale, blood pressure monitoring,

Health committee  I understand that the question is asking for basically some of the reasons or factors behind why rural residents have poorer health status than urban residents. There are numerous factors that play into this. I think a lot of them are interrelated. The other comment I'll make br

Health committee  I want to connect on that point and tie in with Ken's earlier point about shared decision-making. We tell the health care providers that it is their responsibility to be the resource person and to be the guide in a lot of these cases, but the reality is a lot of health care prof

Health committee  I'm wrapping up right now. With INR testing at the point of care, that could potentially shave it down to one visit to the pharmacy, for a total of five or ten minutes to wrap up the process.

Health committee  We will both be speaking. I will start this off, and then I will pass it on to my colleague, Dr. Milne. Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Feng Chang. I'm an assistant professor with the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo, as well as the chair of rural pha