Mac to research health care quality
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The federal government and McMaster University are teaming up to improve health care quality in Canada.
The feds will spend $6.5 million over the next three years for a research project that will look at the impact of health care teams on patients. It will also look at ways to make the current system more cost-efficient.
Eve Adams, parliamentary health secretary was there on behalf of federal health minister Rona Ambrose.
“What we’d like to do is send community volunteers in to the homes of aged individuals to pinpoint the very things that Dr (John) Kelton (Dean and Vice President, McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences) was mentioning. Do these individuals need additional help? Should we be sending them and connecting them with Meals on Wheels. Should we be intervening to make sure that their doctors are aware of an emerging issue?”
Research will include how community volunteers and ehealth technology impact patients. The project hopes to help seniors and at-risk patients in staying healthy longer.
