Family Practice News

Five new doctors have arrived in Barrie. One of the newly recruited doctors, Dr.

A personalized electronic health tracking system can improve diabetes patients' care and clinical outcomes, Canadian researchers say.

Woodstock needs doctors. We are not alone. Communities across Ontario are also in need.

An electronic system with personalized patient information shared by diabetes patients and their primary care providers improved diabetes care and clinical outcomes, found a new study in CMAJ .

Eight internists and family doctors have left their private practices in Helena in the past seven months - and that means a 25-percent drop the city's primary-care physician work force.

Even if President Barack Obama is successful in revamping the health care system to cover the nation's 46 million uninsured, Texas and the rest of the nation still face a shortage of primary-care doctors to treat them.

The latest surveys and polls show that about 90 per cent of B.C. residents have a family doctor, while the same is true for only 78 per cent of B.C. doctors.

Primary Care Wins, Imaging Loses, Under New CMS Proposal - ht to Vinny Arora who retweeted AbbieCitron - Twitter does increase the speed at which I learn about important articles.

Meet the Docs. Trillium Health Centre and Summerville Family Medicine Teaching Unit launched an initiative yesterday that will provide thousands of Mississauga residents with access to a family doctor.

The Fredericton Chamber of Commerce is stepping up its efforts to recruit doctors to the city by taking a high-tech slant.

Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 - 1:00 PDT Commenting on the publication of the results of a national patient access survey today local general practitioners expressed anger that a survey which shows how well general practice is delivering care to patients has resulted in the expected loss of up to A 2 ...

Dr. Terry Hoyt of Van Buren, Ark., has joined the team at Sequoyah Memorial Hospital in Sallisaw, and his office in Sallisaw will open July 7. New patients may start making appointments on Monday by calling 790-3004. Linda Copeland - TIMES Dr.

Look no further than the Illinois Medicaid program to understand why more physicians are not being lured into the primary-care profession.

Dr. Eoghan O'Shea says the regional virology lab hasn't tested samples from two patients he thinks might have swine flu.

Had a great time talking to family physicians at the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians.

Dawn Beals says the closure of the Oromocto Public Hospital's emergency room is having an impact on the health of many community residents.

Friday morning was the end of three "very busy" years for Lt. Ryan Arnold. Arnold was one of six family physicians and six interns who graduated at Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital's Camp Lejeune Family Medicine Residency Graduation Ceremony.

Obesity rates are going up, diabetes is increasing and blood pressure problems are worsening among Canadian adults.

Poll Twitter Five reasons your family doctor isna t using EMR By: Jennifer Kavur - Computer World Canada A An EMR vendor, group physician and OntarioMD weigh in on the roadblocks to EMR adoption in Ontario for family physicians.

Otago and Southland remain the only regions of New Zealand which have no confirmed cases of swine flu.