The College is working together with other health regulators in considering making additional information publicly available about the health-care professionals that we regulate.
Transparency provides members of the public with information that enables them to decide who they wish to see for care. It also allows the College to demonstrate how we protect the public through our processes.
Technology is changing the face of insurance – but could the very technology that promises to measure driving habits on a granular level spell the end of auto insurance as we know it?
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/technology-and-auto-insurance–boom-or-bust-182490.aspx
There is a new device called “Ajusto” that can be installed in your car and allows insurers to monitor your driving behaviour, time spent on the road, times of day that you drive etc. This is now actually in existence and being used by Desjardins/The Personal car insurance company.
http://www.personalinjurylawlawyer.ca/car-insurers-can-monitor-actual-driving-habits/
The colleges that regulate health professionals in Ontario are scrambling to meet a Dec. 1 deadline set by Health Minister Eric Hoskins to outline concrete steps they’ll take toward more transparency.
Health Minister Eric Hoskins tells the Star that he is looking for “new tools”to protect patient safety in response to the Star’s excellent exposé of the secrecy in private colonoscopy and pain clinics and the harm done to unsuspecting patients.
Comments on this week’s article ‘Accident victims at risk at clinics’ revealed a deep cynicism, with readers expressing a mix of despair and disgust at what they see as a disregard for those in need.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/cynicism-surrounds-ontarios-auto-insurance-182391.aspx
Ontario’s decision to move more hospital-based services to the community is a sensible and laudable policy that has to be backed up with appropriate safety and quality regulation, as well as reimbursement practices.
More patients treated at private clinic tell of medical ordeals that occurred before the time window identified in a Toronto Public Health probe.
There’s an interesting criminal law question in a new charge police have added against the driver involved in a horrific London, Ont., crash that claimed the life of a young girl and, days later, that of her newborn sister.