Reading time: 6 minutes What should post-pandemic health care look like? More virtual care and greater equity were some of the hopes shared by health-care experts at the Choosing Wisely National meeting.

Reading time: 3 minutes If the pandemic has a silver lining, it’s the opportunity it presents to get rid of low value care, an audience at the Choosing Wisely National Meeting heard.

Reading time: 5 minutes Given the upheaval the pandemic caused in the lives of so many, even patients with no history of serious episodes of mental distress could be experiencing them now. 

Reading time: 5 minutes Following the death of a woman following discharge, a Committee of the Chief Coroner’s Office is recommending new protocols for emergency departments.

Reading time: 5 minutes ISMP Canada reports on an analysis of medication incidents that took place over a five-year span. The analysis was conducted to help form strategies to improve patient safety.

Reading time: 5 minutes Choosing Wisely Canada launched a campaign encouraging conversations between clinicians and seriously ill patients to avoid potentially harmful or overly aggressive tests and treatments.

Reading time: 3 minutes The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario developed new guidance, making it clear privacy obligations apply to virtual care as it does to in-person care.

Reading time: 5 minutes The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recently published a bulletin sharing a number of leading practices that facilitate the safe administration of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Reading time: 7 minutes Listening skills are critical for the sake of a patient’s storytelling. Especially when patients are working their way to reveal their underlying or unexpected agendas.

Reading time: 5 minutes A review into the homicide of a woman by her elderly husband revealed missed opportunities for communication between police, hospital clinical staff, and home care providers.

Reading time: 4 minutes One bereaved mother explains how receiving an apology helped her family begin the process of healing.

Reading time: 3 minutes Expert committees of the Chief Coroner’s office call for improved collaboration after reviewing the circumstances of two deaths.