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eHealth series in the Province newspaper
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Vancouver, BC - Sep 24, 2013
Beginning at the end of last week and continuing this week the Province newspaper is publishing a series of articles on eHealth.
Topics so far include:
Video link saves time all around.
Website brings help to chronic disease sufferers.
New Electronic tools are making patients active partners in their own health care.
Isn't there a medical app for that?
A doctor, a patient and an iPad: Innovation on the front lines.
Lessons from Enron, for our system (and our profession)?
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Last week, Jim Turley, Chief Executive Officer of Ernst & Young, was asked by Charlie Rose:
What are the lessons of Enron, and how did it happen?
His reply:
Well, look, I think that, at the end of the day, you know, the profession wasn't as focused on the delivery of quality as we needed to be, back in the 90s and leading up the the Enron era, and so what happened after was really important.
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BC Medical Association does NOT want members to attend the AGM on June 1st.
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Vancouver, BC - May 31, 2013 - Z. Essak
On June 1, 2013 the BC Medical Association will hold its Annual General Meeting in Vancouver, BC at the Pan Pacific Hotel. This is an opportunity for doctors across British Columbia to provide input and to ask important questions of their leadership.
Why then, would the “Platinum Sponsor” for this event, the Canadian Medical Association, schedule a conference on the same date and time as the BCMA AGM?
In fact, the BCMA is sponsoring doctors to attend the other conference instead of coming to the AGM.
Dr. Zafar Essak asks, “Why doesn't the BCMA want their members to attend the AGM? What have they got to hide? Is it because they don’t want to answer difficult questions from the members?”
Physicians providing front line care know where to find efficiencies and know how to make the health care system more effective with better patient outcomes. The problem is, they cannot speak out on your behalf without facing court actions by the Ministry of Health and being sued by their own Health Authorities.
CMAJ news: Alarm growing over limited access to BC PharmaNet data by scientists
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On Monday April 22, 2013 the CMAJ, Canadian Medical Association Journal, published news of the growing alarm over limited access to BC PharmaNet data by scientists hobbling drug-safety watchdogs.
Spanning eleven months, amid abrupt dismissals of staff and scientists, a cloud of wrongful dismissal claims and pending an investigation, the ministry has severely restricted access to data from its PharmaNet databases.
Dr. David Henry, chief executive officer of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, Ontario, warns "The most comprehensive data in Canada has been denied to us," noting that the BC government has failed to respond to repeated inquiries from alarmed scientists across Canada. "We've not been given a way forward."
Wang v BC Medical Association Judgment Released March 8, 2013
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2013-04-05 Vancouver, BC – Z. Essak,
Almost a month has passed since the Judgment Wang v BC Medical Association was released on March 8, 2013. The day the Judgment was released the BCMA Board was in session. The BCMA Board will be meeting again on Saturday April 6, 2013.
The Judgment comes a little more than a year after the 24 days at Trial from January 23 to February 24, 2012 and five years have elapsed since the President’s Letter of February 2, 2008.
Some doctors are saying maybe the Judgment could have been more even-handed in it’s delivery. Some doctors are saying “Dr Wang won but she doesn’t get any relief”. Some doctors are saying “it’s a partial victory” and some doctors are saying “it’s a huge win”.
What has emerged from the Judgment?
