Health Law Review articles from January 2007

Health Law Review archives from January 2007

Healing, not squealing: recent amendments to Alberta's Health Information Act.
January 1, 2007... Introduction Disclosure of personal health information by health professionals to police is an issue that is becoming the subject of increasing discussion and legislative reform in Canada. For example, Ontario's provincial government...

Problematic principles: the CMA on public/private health care.(Canadian Medical Association)
January 1, 2007... In June 2006, the Canadian Medical Association [CMA] published a discussion paper, "It's about access! Informing the debate on public and private health care," to evaluate how best to manage the public and private health care sectors in order...

The origins of and economic momentum behind "pay for performance" reimbursement.
January 1, 2007... Abstract "Pay for performance," a reimbursement method under which some physicians and hospitals are paid more than others for the same services because they have been deemed to deliver better quality care and their patients appear to have...

Public meets private: challenges for informed consent and umbilical cord blood banking in Canada.
January 1, 2007... This paper is a substantially modified version of a poster presented at the DNA Sampling Conference in Montreal, Quebec, June 4-7, 2006: Lorraine Sheremeta & Suzanne DeBow, "Public Meets Private: Challenges for Informed Consent and...

Chaoulli, critical theory and Charter rights.
January 1, 2007... Introduction Since its inception nearly forty years ago, Canada's universal public healthcare system has risen to near-iconic status in the national psyche. Despite growing public concern about healthcare's ability to cope with an...