Project Incubator – Personal Health Record provincial roll-out

Project Incubators are an opportunity for researchers, clinicians, policy-makers and other stakeholders in Nova Scotia’s primary and integrated healthcare system to come together to discuss research topics and areas of collaboration.  This event will include:

  • An introduction to BRIC NS
  • Information about funding opportunities
  • An introduction for the Personal Health Record (PHR) initiative
  • An opportunity to ask questions of people involved in the PHR demonstration project

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Quality in Primary Health Care Seminar Series

Personalized Medicine: The Role of Obesity in Prescribing

Often, when we think of personalized medicine we think of genes and high tech solutions to complicated problems.  In this presentation, Dr. Gillian Bartlett (Dept. of Family Medicine McGill University) will present some of the work her group has done on exploring personalized medicine from the perspective of patient characteristics that are easily measurable; in this case, obesity.

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