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Interior Health spending on agency nurses up 2,476% in two years | iNFOnews


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March 22, 2024 – 7:30 AM






Interior Health is contracting out an increasing number of nursing jobs as its spending climbed to more than $30 million last year.

From 2017 to 2021, the health authority spent up to around $2 million per year on agency nurses. That jumped to nearly $8 million in 2022, according to figures obtained through a freedom of information request.

Interior Health then spent $33.5 million for agency nurses across the region in 2023.

BC Nurses’ Union president Adriane Gear

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South Korea enables access to 113 personal health data via My HealthWay

South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare is officially launching My HealthWay, a national platform serving as a “health information highway” for individuals’ personal health records.

Based on a press statement, the platform aggregates a person’s health information from various sources, providing a single view of those data. It also allows individuals to store and enable the transfer of their health data with their consent.

WHY IT MATTERS

Previously, patients could only access some of their health information, including vaccination history, health checkup, treatment records, and medical history, which are all held by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency,

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