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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.How Good is Canada's Medical Technology Inventory?
Medical technologies are an important component of medical care and can provide significant benefits to patients. Medical technologies can advance the identification and treatment of disease, provide more comfortable treatment regimes and reduce pain, offer new treatment options where none previously existed, and provide a safer environment for both patients and providers.
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Nadeem Esmail
Senior Fellow, Fraser InstituteNadeem Esmail is a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute. He first joined the Fraser Institute in 2001, served asDirector of Health System Performance Studies from 2006 to 2009, and has been a Senior Fellow since 2010. Mr. Esmail has spearheaded critical Fraser Institute research including the annual Waiting Your Turn survey of surgical wait times across Canada and How Good Is Canadian Health Care?, an international comparison of health care systems. In addition, Mr. Esmail has authored or co-authored more than 30 comprehensive studies and more than 150 articles on a wide range of topics including the cost of public health care insurance, international comparisons of health care systems, hospital performance, medical technology, and physician shortages. A frequent commentator on radio and TV, Mr. Esmail's articles have appeared in newspapers across North America. Mr. Esmail completed his B.A. (Honours) in Economics at the University of Calgary and received an M.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia.… Read more Read Less…
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