Studies Show Alcohol, Cannabis Use Increases with Pandemic Related Stress and Anxiety Seventy years ago in 1951, Canada’s first Mental Health Week was introduced. This recognition was a long time coming, given that awareness of mental health illness has been around for centuries and the first mental health clinic opened in Canada in the early […] Keep reading The Link Between Mental Health Issues and Substance Use »
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Healthcare Privacy Breach – the Financial Impact
This article is part 3 of our 3-part Privacy Training Series: Financial Impacts & Consequences of a Privacy Breach. In our 3 part series on privacy in healthcare we reviewed several issues around motivations that drive privacy breaches and a specific example with a pharmacist who breached multiple patients’ healthcare records including her own without […] Keep reading Healthcare Privacy Breach – the Financial Impact »
COVID’s Mental Health Toll in the Workplace 56% of Canadians Stressed & Anxious
We may have mastered the physical side of working remotely but what about the emotional side? A year ago, Canadians were three months into the pandemic. We were through the initial shock of shutdowns and closures, but most of us were still trying to find our groove in navigating the “new normal”. For millions of […] Keep reading COVID’s Mental Health Toll in the Workplace 56% of Canadians Stressed & Anxious »
Anatomy of a Privacy Breach in Health Care
This article is part 2 of our 3-part Privacy Training Series: Financial Impacts & Consequences of a Privacy Breach. It doesn’t take significant effort with Google to discover multiple stories about privacy breaches in Canadian healthcare settings over the past year. These stories have consistent plot lines with egregious privacy breaches being committed by employees, […] Keep reading Anatomy of a Privacy Breach in Health Care »
Substance Use Costs Canadian Taxpayers $46 Billion
63% of lost productivity costs ($20.0 Billion) due to alcohol and tobacco Substance use costs Canadian society $46 billion a year (2017), or $1,258 for every person in Canada. The lost productivity portion of that bill is calculated to be over $20 billion, a number that employers can view as a reference point for the […] Keep reading Substance Use Costs Canadian Taxpayers $46 Billion »
