Audit concludes Infoway missed program targets

Audit concludes Infoway missed program targets.

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, May 17, 2011, 183(8) 893 years ago, it began requiring codes of conduct as a condition of hospital accreditation. The codes have to define acceptable, disruptive and inappropriate behaviours, Schyve says, adding that the purpose of such codes is to encourage a culture of safety, where people feel free to report adverse events, close cal...

Missed targets

Back in 2002, when the UN-sponsored, intergovernmental Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) set targets aiming to reduce the loss of biodiversity by 2010, that date must have looked very distant, providing ample time to change the world and turn the tides on the loss of wild nature. However, the time has come — probably sooner than everybody expected — and the CBD’s third Global Biodiversit...

Infoway is shifting, not shuttering: Alvarez.

Rare targets are rarely missed in correctable search.

Failing to find a tumor in an x-ray scan or a gun in an airport baggage screening can have dire consequences, making it fundamentally important to elucidate the mechanisms that hinder performance in such visual searches. Recent laboratory work has indicated that low target prevalence can lead to disturbingly high miss rates in visual search. Here, however, we demonstrate that misses in low-prev...

Infoway calls for e-prescribing proposals.

Canada Health Infoway issued a cal l for proposals for a $40-million national electronic prescription service called PrescribeIT. The service would connect clinicians and pharmacists so prescriptions could be issued electronically. The aim of the proposals, according to the July 15 call, is to deliver a system operating in at least two provinces or territories by late 2017. Federal Health Minis...