What does it mean to restore health care funding to refugees?

Wondering about the decision to reinstate health care funding so that doctors can be paid to provide services to refugees. How will it work, exactly?

The provincial governments receive lump sum funding from the federal government that isn’t precisely earmarked for “refugees”.

Will new funding be sent and then “earmarked” or is it old money that was withheld ?

Will health care providers invoice the federal government directly? Will it be at the rates established by various physician agreements? For example, in Ontario at OHIP rates or at OMA rates for non-insured services (like WSIB rates)?

What do we know about the coverage ? Does it include prescription coverage and services like dental care, physiotherapy and allied health?

 

Primary care apps

It is interesting that the number of health related apps have grown so quickly. Most are disease specific–managing your (insert condition). Some are better than others in that you can customize them for your specific values.

I wonder how these app based results are then shared with the health care providers and whether or not they can be put in the patients record?

Most applications have very limited print capacities. Perhaps using the built in capacity to screen capture the results and printing the output can be one way to add the record into a patient file.