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My community’s hospital is going digital –switching from paper charts in binders to an Electronic Health Record (EHR) on a computer or a tablet. This transition has been a decade in the making. When I started this job four years ago, it was already established that a fully integrated electronic s...

This post was originally published in Physiotherapy Practice (Volume 6, Issue 6) on November 8, 2016 and can be accessed here. 
  This issue of Physiotherapy Practice focuses on the current state and future evolution of the physiotherapy and rehabilitation market. For many of you, this is n...

CPA’s Board of Directors is the governing body of the Association. It is the Board’s job to ensure that CPA fulfills its mission to advance the profession of physiotherapy in order to improve the health of Canadians. As a CPA member, you choose who serves on the Board, so it is helpful to know wh...

On November 4th, 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked why having a gender balanced cabinet was so important. His response was simple – “Because it is 2015”. (1) This succinct answer made me pause to reflect on my own career as a physiotherapist. Could I provide such a pointed answer if s...

Recently, a commentary by Dr. Louis Francescutti was posted on the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA) website.  In it, he suggested there is a lack of accountability in the health system, and physicians need to take some responsibility to fix the problem.  He proposed one potential solution: ma...

When I first began my physiotherapy (PT) career, I worked in a clinical area with a wonderful physiotherapist assistant (PTA).  We hadn’t learned much about this role in school and I wasn’t quite sure what I could assign to this person. Wasn’t I supposed to be able to do all of this stuff myself?...

Have you ever spoken with a friend or neighbour about a bad experience in health care? Have you ever read a story that implicated wrongdoing at your place of employment?  How did you feel?  I worked at a large hospital when suddenly; the local news started reporting on the fraud occurring in the ...

I recently reviewed some interesting passages from a book where the main purpose was simple, menacing, and genius, all wrapped into a bound set of 592 pages. This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress, edited by John Brockman, is a collection of essays where the authors ha...

Check out this fascinating series of posts about technology from APTA’s May 2016 PTinMOTIONmag.org (© 2016 American Physical Therapy Association. All rights reserved). COULD ‘BIORESORBABLE’ SENSORS HELP INDIVIDUALS RECOVER FROM BRAIN INJURY, SURGERY? They melt in your brain, not in your hand.   S...